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.
RICHARD KING, HOST: Anthony Albanese, our Prime Minister, is on the line. Good morning Prime Minister.
PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE: Good morning Richard, good to chat.
KING: Likewise, thank you very much for your time. Busy week, the Jobs and Skills Summit coming up, National Cabinet meeting tomorrow and your first appearance at the National Press Club, yesterday, since being elected. You were talking about your first one hundred days in office, what do you see as the main achievement of your first one hundred days, Prime Minister?
It’s always an honour to speak at the Bush Summit. And it’s a particular pleasure to come to Griffith for the first time as Prime Minister.
This summit is a valuable initiative in the life of the nation and I thank Ben English and The Daily Telegraph for it.
Anything that brings us closer together as a nation is a good thing.
Our common ground will always be the most fertile place to plant our hopes and enhance our future.
I see a better future for all Australians.
The Albanese Labor Government has today announced the creation of a biodiversity certificates scheme.
The scheme recognises landholders who restore or manage local habitat and grants them biodiversity certificates which can then be sold to other parties.
This will operate in a similar way to our current carbon crediting legislation.
The scheme will make it easier for businesses, organisations and individuals to invest in landscape restoration and management.