AMELIA BRACE, HOST: Anthony Albanese joins us now from Canberra. Prime Minister, thank you so much for being here for our very first show.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good evening.

BRACE: Regarding the cost of living relief tomorrow, there will be a few extra dollars in our pockets, but it's not a whole lot of cash. Is this you weaning the Australian people off these payments and rebates?

ALICIA PAYNE, MEMBER FOR CANBERRA: Good morning everyone. I'm Alicia Payne, the Member for Canberra, and it's my great pleasure this morning to be here with the Prime Minister, Minister Gallagher, Minister Giles, ACT Deputy Chief Minister Yvette Berry and Minister Pettersson here at CIT Bruce to meet with TAFE students and apprentices and hear about what our new incentive kicking off tomorrow will mean for them.

ZHI SOON, MEMBER FOR BANKS: Good morning, everyone. It is an absolute pleasure to be here in East Hills. Firstly, I'd like to recognise that we are on the land of the Bidjigal people and acknowledge their continual custodianship of the land, waterways in this area for generations. I also wanted to say a particular thanks to Julia, Stefan and little Artie for welcoming us to their home here in East Hills. And we're here to talk about a very exciting topic, that's very close to my heart with a young little girl called Dorothy, who's seven months old.

JESS TEESDALE, MEMBER FOR BASS: Good morning everyone. It’s an absolute pleasure today to welcome Prime Minister Anthony Albanese here at the Discovery Early Learning Child Care Centre. We also have Labor Leader Dean Winter and Sarah Lovell, somewhere in the back. It is such a pleasure this morning to be here. We've had a chat with some of the kids. We've had a chat with the child care educators who are here, and we can see the incredible work that is happening every single day and every moment in these centres.

KIERAN GILBERT, HOST: Prime Minister, thanks for your time.

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

GILBERT: The ceasefire we've seen, is this a vindication of the Trump approach of peace through strength?

PRIME MINISTER: Well, what we want to see is the ceasefire announced by President Trump implemented. We think that we do want to see dialogue and diplomacy replace any escalation. And President Trump's announcement, we very much welcome.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. The world has long agreed that Iran cannot be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. And we support action to prevent that. That is what this is. The US action was directed at specific sites central to Iran's nuclear program. We don't want escalation and a full-scale war. We continue to call for dialogue and for diplomacy. As I've said for many days now, we are deeply concerned about any escalation in the region and we want to see diplomacy, dialogue and de-escalation.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: It's been a very productive day here at the G7. And I want to firstly thank Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, for the generous invitation for Australia to participate in the G7 – the second time that I've been able to participate. As the world is watching the developments in the Middle East, it is our collective responsibility to work together to uphold and defend security and economic prosperity. And the G7 brings together major economies and democratic countries. This morning, I met German Chancellor Merz.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa and agreed to start negotiations on a Security and Defence Partnership (SDP) with the EU at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Alberta, Canada.

The Partnership will provide a framework for current and future cooperation including in areas such as defence industry, cyber and counter-terrorism. 

Over the past two days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met with leaders from across the world at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Alberta, Canada.

The Prime Minister participated with other G7 invited guests in a session on the future of global energy security.

Leaders discussed the need to diversify energy sources and strengthen critical minerals supply chains.

Australia endorsed the G7 Critical Minerals Action Plan, which increases cooperation to build standards-based markets, mobilise capital and promote innovation.