Your Excellency, President José Ramos-Horta.
Your Excellency, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão.
Distinguished guests.
I am deeply humbled to receive this honour.
I give my sincere thanks to you all and to the people of Timor-Leste.
For me, the gift of this Order serves as a testament to the strength and depth of the friendship between our two great nations.
KAY RALA XANANA GUSMÃO, PRIME MINISTER OF TIMOR-LESTE: It is my great honour to welcome Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese MP to Timor-Leste for this official visit. Prime Minister Albanese’s visit is an important moment in the relationship between our two countries and reflects the depth of friendship, trust and partnership between Timor-Leste and Australia. Our discussions today were warm, open and productive. We agreed to establish a new partnership for the new era that reflects the maturity of our relationship and our shared future.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Dili, Timor-Leste for an official visit from 28 to 29 January 2026 to meet His Excellency President Dr José Ramos-Horta and His Excellency Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão.
Australia and Timor-Leste share a strong partnership, spanning security cooperation, economic development, health, education and community ties.
While in Dili, leaders will discuss opportunities to further strengthen the relationship and to promote a peaceful, stable and prosperous region.
LUKE GOSLING, MEMBER FOR SOLOMON: Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Better Health Futures building at CDU. Our government was very proud to put in about $15 million into this building and also to support the Commonwealth funded places that just next week is going to see the first medical program here at CDU start off and see Territorians through the years becoming doctors, and we know that more of them will stay here in the Territory, and that's exactly what we want, and it's all been made possible due to good friend of the Territories, the Prime Minister.
The Albanese Labor Government is strengthening healthcare in the Northern Territory, delivering across the board – from education and training to aged and primary care.
The first cohort of students will commence at Charles Darwin University medical school in February, delivering a major boost to medical training and the doctor pipeline in the Northern Territory.
The Government is investing $24.6 million to deliver the medical school, which will mark a step change for medical training in the Northern Territory.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pause to reflect on an act of inhumanity so vast and horrific, it is almost beyond reckoning. Yet reckon with it we must.
As we give thanks for all who survived, we hold on to the memory of the victims. We hold on to all those names, all those faces, all those stories. And, even with the passing of so much time, we are haunted by the terrible truth that they add up to six million.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, happy Australia Day everyone. It's always wonderful to preside over citizenship ceremonies, and 19,000 people today will pledge their allegiance and their loyalty to our great nation of Australia. This is a nation built on the fact that we share this continent with the oldest continuous culture on earth, but where generations of people have come for a better life for themselves and their families and helped to be part of writing the Australian story.
The great gift of Australia Day is that it gives us the perfect opportunity to come together to celebrate everything that unites us as a nation and makes us the best country on earth.
We look back on the fullness and richness of our history, recognising our extraordinary privilege in sharing this continent with the world’s oldest continuous culture in all its wisdom and resilience.
I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Your Excellency, distinguished guests.
My fellow Australians.
What a wonderful phrase that is.
It gives me particular pleasure to direct it to those of who have taken your seats as citizens of India, New Zealand, Türkiye, the United States, Nigeria, Malaysia, Nepal, and the United Kingdom but will leave here as our fellow Australians.