HOST: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese joins us. Good morning Prime Minister.

PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE: Quite a welcome.

HOST: Yeah it is Prime Minister.

PRIME MINISTER: Are you actually standing up now?

HOST: Of course we're standing –no we’re not. It’s very early, Albo,

HOST: They are very high stools, though. So we'll call that almost standing.

HOST: Prime Minister, I'm concerned and confused because the other bloke only spoke to us before an election, like what's this?

National Cabinet met in Sydney today to discuss COVID-19 settings and key joint-actions for the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit.

Acting Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd provided an update on the pandemic and outlined strategies for combating potential COVID-19 waves.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: National Cabinet met in Sydney this afternoon to discuss COVID-19 settings, but also key joint actions for the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit that will be held in Canberra over the next two days. We heard a report from the Acting Chief Medical Officer, Professor Michael Kidd, who provided an update on the pandemic and outlined strategies for combatting potential COVID-19 waves into the future. First Ministers reinforced their commitment to continued collaboration between Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments in managing the pandemic.

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

We are here over the next two days striving for agreement, for the good of our country.
And I hope we can begin by agreeing that there is so much for our country to gain from answering the generous, patient call of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

RAF EPSTEIN, HOST: So there's a number of significant changes that are already being mooted, that cover enterprise bargaining, which is when you have workers and bosses negotiating one workplace, and they also cover whether or not unions could have a role when you've got more than one business involved in a process like that. Anthony Albanese has been at this Summit all day. Of course, he organised it because he's the Prime Minister of Australia. Good afternoon.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good afternoon, Raf. Good to be with you.

KARL STEFANOVIC, HOST: The Prime Minister joins us now. PM, how good were the Lions last night?

PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE: You would be very pleased, Karl, as a Queenslander. They got up just at the last-minute. I must admit, though, I only switched it on right at the end. I was at the Jobs and Skills Summit dinner.

STEFANOVIC: I was going to lead off with that but I thought it was a bit dull but I'm going to go to that right now. The accusation this morning is that you are a slave to the unions. Are you?

ERIN MOLAN, HOST: Prime Minister, first of all, thank you so much for sitting down with me.

PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE: Good to be with you, Erin.

MOLAN: Give yourself a score out of a hundred for your first one hundred days.

PRIME MINISTER: Well, I'm not a commentator, so there's no right answer to that. I'll leave that to others. But I'm pleased with how the government is going. I think in the first hundred days, all you can do is set a tone.

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

And I’m proud to lead a government advancing the implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

The great privilege, the great opportunity and the solemn responsibility of government is putting our ambition for the country into action.

Converting the promises of a campaign, into the progress of a nation.

Writing our vision for Australia’s future into the laws of the land.

RICHARD GLOVER, HOST: Well, yesterday the Prime Minister marked 100 days in office by appearing at the National Press Club. Today, he marks 101 days in office by appearing here on Drive. Prime Minister, welcome.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day, good to be with you.

GLOVER: What's surprised you about being the boss, finally?

LAURA TINGLE, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB PRESIDENT: I'm sure that my colleagues are going to ask a lot of questions for you about industrial relations and the Jobs Summit. But just taking up a couple of the points you made just now, particularly about the importance of aged care workers, childcare workers, teachers, nurse in the health system, and noting how essential they've been, and how exhausted they must be: the Andrews Government announced measures overnight to free new nursing trainees from HECS obligations.