CHRIS MINNS, PREMIER OF NEW SOUTH WALES: I'm joined with the Prime Minister, the Minister for Police, the Commissioner for New South Wales Ambulance, and of course, Mal Lanyon, the New South Wales Police Commissioner. It's a very sad duty this morning to report that 16 people have been confirmed as being killed. 15 innocent people and one perpetrator. There are 42 people in New South Wales hospitals overnight, and the victims' age ranges are from as young as 10 to 87. A devastating fact.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: I am joined tonight by Nigel Ryan, the Acting Deputy Commissioner for National Security for the AFP, and Mike Burgess, the Director-General of ASIO. And we don't normally talk and confirm meetings of the National Security Committee, but I think at this moment it is appropriate to tell Australians that the National Security Committee was convened as a matter of urgency and we have just come from it. This afternoon, there has been a devastating terrorist incident at Bondi at the Chanukah by the Sea celebration.

MERYL SWANSON, MEMBER FOR PATERSON: Well, good morning everyone. It's great to be here and as the boss said, thunder struck this morning. And it was a sign, a really positive sign for not only this facility but for our region and quite frankly our nation. Tomago Aluminium is an important industrial piece in Australia and we all learned from COVID that we need to keep making things here in Australia, and under this Prime Minister and the Albanese Government, that's what we intend to do.

MERYL SWANSON, MEMBER FOR PATERSON: Well, good morning everyone. It's great to be here and as the boss said, thunder struck this morning. And it was a sign, a really positive sign for not only this facility but for our region and quite frankly our nation. Tomago Aluminium is an important industrial piece in Australia and we all learned from COVID that we need to keep making things here in Australia, and under this Prime Minister and the Albanese Government, that's what we intend to do.

Today the Australian Government has unveiled a plan to work with the NSW Government and Tomago Aluminium to keep the smelter open beyond 2028.

This joint effort secures thousands of jobs at Tomago and across the Hunter, and positions Australia as a global leader in aluminium produced using renewable energy.

Over the coming months, Tomago Aluminium will work with the Federal and NSW Governments on a long-term renewable energy solution to support the smelter’s viability when its current energy contract expires in 2028.

ANIKA WELLS, MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS: Well, bright new morning in Australia as we have delivered our world-leading laws, and I think it's pretty clear overnight that the world is watching. We have had huge global interest in how we are delivering a law that is not just I think a moral imperative, one of the defining issues of our time, but a law that is novel, complex, innovative. So, there's been a huge amount of global interest and we welcome it.

KIERAN GILBERT, HOST: Prime Minister, thanks for your time. As Trudy just mentioned, there some congressional figures, senior figures, MAGA Senator Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz. They're sounding positive about a social media ban, potentially in the United States. That must have surprised you, did it?

The Albanese Government is delivering three new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, all now open in Marrickville, Burwood and Rouse Hill.

The clinics offer walk-in care for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions and patients will be fully bulk billed. The clinics are open seven days a week, and all operate for extended hours:

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, it's fantastic to be here at the opening of the Marrickville Urgent Care Clinic. This is one of 137 now we're rolling out right around the country. And more than a couple of million Australians have benefited from urgent care. We had young Matilda arrived here today, not feeling well. Mum's brought her in. Getting the care that is needed, when it's needed, for free. And all they need, of course, is this little piece of plastic, green and gold, their Medicare card. And that makes such a difference.

HOST: Joining us this morning is the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. Good morning.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning to you.

HOST: Congratulations, now a married man.