The Albanese and Cook Governments have signed a landmark agreement to power the next stage of Western Australia's growth with affordable and more secure renewable energy.

The Commonwealth-Western Australia Rewiring the Nation deal will bolster WA’s energy security by expanding and modernising electricity grids in Perth, the South West, as well as in the North West Pilbara region.

MICHELLE, HOST: Welcome.

XAV, HOST: Welcome, welcome.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: What a great intro.

XAV: Yeah, I did that this morning at 2am for you.

MICHELLE: A bit of razzle dazzle. He says that all the time.

XAV: Every guest gets that same line, sorry.

PRIME MINISTER: They all get a song, do they?

XAV: Yeah, it's a blend of everything we throw together.

MITSOPOULOS: Well, this morning you've announced $3 billion through loans and equity investments to modernise our electricity grids. What sort of projects will this apply to?

I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

I am proud to lead a Government which will give every Australian the opportunity to come together and vote for Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at a referendum later this year.

Simon Trott, Rio Tinto: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, this amazing country that we're on, the Ngarluma people and acknowledge also their elders past and present. Rio has been operating here in Dampier since the 1960s, and over that time we've exported around seven billion tons of iron ore. One of the things I love about my job is the opportunities that it creates, the opportunities for people though employment, the opportunities for business, the opportunities for the society here in the Pilbara, and also right across Australia.

Earlier today a United States Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin, while supporting Exercise Predators Run 2023.

Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the three US service personnel who lost their lives, those who have been injured, the rest of the crew and indeed the entire United States armed forces.

Australian Defence Force personnel in the Northern Territory are providing support to our US partners.

No Australian personnel were involved in the incident.

The Albanese Government’s plan to train, retrain or upskill Australians and tackle skills shortages is a raging success with all 180,000 Fee-Free places filled within six months.

New figures show Fee-Free TAFE enrolments have hit more than 214,300 in the first six months – six months earlier than anticipated and nearly 35,000 places more than expected.

The biggest winner is set to be the care sector, with courses across health care, aged care and disability care attracting more than 51,000 students or 23.8 per cent of total enrolments.

Pete, Host: Good morning to you, Mr Albanese. Welcome to the studio.

Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Good morning. Great to be here. Beautiful day here in Perth.

Pete: It's lovely.

Matt, Host: Isn't that right?

Prime Minister: It's always good weather.

Kymba, Host: We like to turn it on, don't tell too many people. We like that we're a little bit distant from everybody else. It stops, we don't just let everybody in.

Host: We do have the PM in the studio. It's great having Tracy here because you can see her nightly on Channel 9, PM, but she's also got a run down of your schedule. And she was reading it to us earlier on.

Host: Well, I've got the timings of your schedule today.

Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: It's a busy day.

Host: They really jam pack it in, Prime Minister, for you and it's been busy for you ever since you took on the role really. Or being in politics in general.

TANYA PLIBERSEK, MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER & MEMBER FOR SYDNEY: We're here on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and the place we're standing on right now is called Bennelong Point. It's named for a man who was the communicator between the first British settlers and the Aboriginal people who lived on and around Sydney Harbour all those years ago. Bennelong played a special role here in Sydney and he later went to England and played that role in England as well, communicating between Aboriginal Australia and white Australia even then.