RICHARD KING, HOST: Joining me now is the Prime Minister. Good morning, Prime Minister.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day, Richard. Good to be with you.
KING: Likewise. Look, you're making an announcement and I don't know anything about it because your people wouldn't tell me anything about it, but a big announcement about EV trucks. Can you tell us a bit more about this?
AMANDA KELLER, HOST: We've been talking on the show this morning about how some councils in Melbourne are going to charge SUVs and large utes more to park because of the space they take up and I guess what they add to our roads. Well, we're hearing this morning that the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has announced that EV trucks will be hitting our Sydney roads to tell us more. Hello, Prime Minister.
BRENDAN JONES, HOST: Here he is.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G’day. Good to be with you.
SARAH MACDONALD, HOST: The Prime Minister joins me now on ABC Radio Sydney with an announcement about EVs and trucks. Good morning to you, Prime Minister.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Sarah. Good to be with you.
MACDONALD: Good to have you. Now, I know you're in Sydney for an announcement and before we get to it, we've just been talking a little bit about the barney about the GST in NSW. The Premier saying it's really unfair, we're losing money. Are you dudding your own State after cuts to the GST share?
The Albanese Government will provide up to $840 million (US$550 million) to help deliver Australia’s first combined rare earths mine and refinery in the Northern Territory, creating local jobs and securing Australia’s position as a renewable energy superpower.
The refinery will create over 300 new jobs across the Northern Territory while also diversifying our critical minerals supply chain. A first of its kind in Australia, the project is an ambitious step forward for our rare earths and critical minerals industry.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today launched a fleet of 43 electric trucks on Sydney roads, marking another milestone in the Government’s Driving the Nation program with Minister Chris Bowen, the CEO of Team Global Express, Christine Holgate, and the global CEO of Volvo, Martin Lundstedt.
These high-tech trucks are the first of 60 purchased by Team Global Express as part of their $44.3 million Depot of the Future project including 36 Volvo FL Electric trucks and 24 Daimler Fuso eCanters.
JASON CLARE, MINISTER FOR EDUCATION: It is so good to be here at Stuart Park Primary School this morning with the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister, with Mark, and my good friend Gos, and Karen Weston, the boss of the Department. This is a big day for the Northern Territory. It’s a big day for all the kids that are growing up here in the Northern Territory. And it is a landmark day for public education right across the country. This is a big deal. This is a billion dollar deal that we are announcing today.
All Northern Territory public schools will be fully and fairly funded by the Australian and Northern Territory Governments following a historic agreement signed today.
Both Governments have signed a Statement of Intent to increase funding for all public schools in the Northern Territory to 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS), by 2029.
This means Northern Territory public schools will reach the full and fair funding level two decades earlier than they would under current settings.
ADAM STEER, HOST: Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese is your special guest. Prime Minister, welcome back to the studio.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Always great to be at the Top End.
STEER: Now, I was asking ahead of this interview, what should be the first question. Loads of people wanted to know whether South Sydney Rabbitohs are going to win the NRL competition. Others said, don't waste your time asking the question.
50 years after Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, the Albanese and Lawler Governments will honour the memory of those who died and those whose lives were irrevocably changed with a permanent monument and separate permanent memorial in Darwin.
The Australian Government is giving a total $600,000 to the Northern Territory Government to work in partnership with stakeholders to install a kinetic monument at Bundilla Beach, as well as a memorial designed by a local artist at East Point.
MARION SCRYMGOUR, MEMBER FOR LINGIARI: Thank you, and I want to thank May and Olivia for the welcome to country. It's always great to be part of being welcomed to other people's country. I think the investment and it is a proud moment to stand here with the Prime Minister, with the Minister for Indigenous Australians, and for the announcement in terms of the biggest investment by any government into the Northern Territory.