ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Today, I am standing alongside my friend, Indonesian President Bapak Prabowo Subianto, to make what is a historic announcement. The governments of Australia and Indonesia have just substantively concluded negotiations on a new bilateral treaty on our common security. Australia's relationship with Indonesia is based on friendship, trust, mutual respect, and a shared commitment to peace and stability in our region.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, to Australia for an official program on 12 November 2025.
This will be President Prabowo’s first visit to Australia since taking office. President Prabowo most recently visited Australia as Minister of Defence and President‑elect in August 2024.
Prime Minister Albanese met President Prabowo in Jakarta in May this year for the Australia–Indonesia Annual Leaders’ Meeting during the Prime Minister’s first overseas trip following his re‑election.
RAF EPSTEIN, HOST: Fifty years after The Dismissal, a lot of people, a lot of people focus on the rules of that day. Could a Governor-General sack a PM? But not the current Prime Minister. He was talking about the politics in a speech last night at Old Parliament House. He said ‘an old suffocating conservatism’ had removed a government chosen by the voters. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is with you on Mornings. Good morning and welcome.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Raff. Good to be with you.
SALLY SARA, HOST: Now it's time to talk to the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who gave a speech here at Old Parliament House last night. Prime Minister, welcome back to Radio National Breakfast.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Sally. Good to be with you.
SARA: In your speech last night you said that the dismissal was not a constitutional crisis, instead calling it a partisan political ambush. Five decades on, could it happen again?
I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respect to elders past, present and emerging.
I acknowledge all our distinguished guests.
Including members of the Whitlam family.
And everyone who was in this very building fifty years ago – as members of Parliament, staffers, journalists.
On the 11th of November 1975, I was in Year 7.
Our history teacher, Mr Vince Crow, burst into our classroom and said:
“Our government has been dismissed.”
Our Government.
Today on Remembrance Day, the minute of silence we so solemnly observe is a silence that reaches out to us across 107 years, a noiseless echo of the hush that fell across Europe when the guns stopped in 1918.
Across mud and trench and barbed wire, it was a silence that belonged as much to those who had made the ultimate sacrifice as it did to the living. Amid the exhaustion, the elation and the grief, that silence held the hope the world would never know war again.
Today I am pleased to announce the Honourable Jay Weatherill AO will be Australia’s next High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom is one of our closest friends and partners, and the appointment of Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK is one of the most important international appointments we make.
Jay Weatherill served as South Australia’s 45th Premier for over six years and championed national debate on sovereign defence capability, renewable energy targets and environmental protection issues.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, today is exactly one month until our world leading social media laws come into effect on 10 December. This is about letting kids be kids. It's also about empowering parents to be able to have those discussions with their children. We don't argue that these laws will be perfect in their implementation.
MARK LEVY, HOST: I thought we'd catch up with Mr Albanese, who's on the line from Canberra. Prime Minister, good morning to you.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Mark. Good to be with you, but sorry about the circumstances.
LEVY: Yeah, it's an extremely sad day, isn't it? We've lost a radio legend.
KYLE SANDILANDS, HOST: Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. We're just connecting to him now. But I did hear Russell Crowe, legendary actor, a friend of the show, we love Russell, on with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan says ‘what's wrong with Australia? What's going on there?’ As if we've, something's going wrong down here. We love our life in Australia. It's a most magnificent country ever. We're away from a lot of the rat bags. And Russell said something really lovely and spot on, I think, about our Prime Minister, Albo.