Public Education Day address to the Australian Education Union

I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, and I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

It is such a great pleasure to be joining you on Public Education Day – and to celebrate what is one of the most potent forces for good that we have.

All Australians can proudly point to public education as one of our great strengths as a nation.

A quality education system that is available to everyone regardless of their postcode, their wealth, faith or ethnicity.

New battery strategy to make more batteries here

The Albanese Government has today released the nation’s first National Battery Strategy, supporting a Future Made in Australia and shoring up our economic resilience and security.

The global demand for batteries is set to quadruple by 2030 as the world transitions to net zero, and our Strategy maps a path for Australia to take advantage of this growth to build a thriving battery industry.

It identifies four high-value strategic opportunities:

Doorstop interview - Westmead

ANDREW CHARLTON, MEMBER FOR PARRAMATTA: Well welcome everybody. Welcome to Westmead, in the federal electorate of Parramatta, a proud Dharug Country. Parramatta is the most dynamic CBD in Australia, the fastest growing CBD in Australia, with more than a million square metres of office space being laid down. We're just metres from the Westmead Innovation Precinct, one of the world's leading centres of medical care and medical innovation. Parramatta is a growing city and an aspirational city.

Opinion piece - Here's how Western Sydney wins big from the Budget

Western Sydney is a place of opportunity.

It's one of the most diverse and dynamic regions in the country - a centre of Australian entrepreneurialism and aspiration, and a hub for economic growth and jobs - and it's also at the centre of my team's Budget.

Labor is investing in Western Sydney because we back Western Sydney. It's an exceptional place to earn a living, start a business, build connections and relationships, and raise a family.

Radio interview - NovaA 96.9 Sydney Fitsy & Wippa with Kate Ritchi

HOST: Our next guest is very important to a topic that we launched yesterday, the initiative called 36 months. We need you to go to 36months.com.au. We want you to sign the petition. The petition that says we need to change the age that kids can join social media from 13 to 16. We went through the statistics yesterday with the Premier Minns in the studio here. From 2008 to 2022, the rates of self harm doubled between the ages of 15 and 19. And how's this, tripled for girls under the age of 14.

Radio interview - 6PR Perth Live

OLIVER PETERSON, HOST: Joining me now is the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Good afternoon.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Always good to have a chat with you, Ollie.

PETERSON: The Opposition is going to make this a housing and immigration election, by the sounds of things, because Peter Dutton's policies are getting people talking. Have you let too many people into Australia? Is the Government now wedged on migration?

Radio interview - ABC Sydney Radio Drive

RICHARD GLOVER, HOST: The Prime Minister is here, Anthony Albanese. Welcome, Prime Minister.

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

GLOVER: Now, Peter Dutton's Budget reply, I think it's fair to say, was dominated by migration. A crackdown on permanent migration on foreign buyers of existing houses, international students. With a housing crisis, excess demand in the economy and these really congested roads we experience in Sydney, isn't he onto something?

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