ROBBIE VON, HOST: Our special guest is in the studio right now. 23rd time to WA is, of course, the Prime Minister. Albo, how are you?

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Fantastic. Great to be here.

CARLY PORTCH, HOST: And you were in Collie the other day –

PRIME MINISTER: I was in Collie on Sunday.

PORTCH: Yes, now tell us about that. Because I understand it was, what, the first time in 40 years the PM has been to Collie.

HOST: Good morning, Albo.

HOST: Hi, Albo.

HOST: You're back again. You brought the Cabinet with you.

PRIME MINISTER: Wonderful to be. I brought all my friends. Yeah, we're here en masse. I've been here since Sunday.

HOST: Is everybody else is happy to be dragged over here?

PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely. We had a full Ministry meeting yesterday. And yesterday morning, were down at HMAS Stirling and I got to go on a nuclear-powered sub, a Virginia Class.

All Western Australian public schools will be fully and fairly funded by the Albanese and Cook Governments following a historic bilateral agreement signed today. 

The bilateral agreement will increase funding for all Western Australian schools to 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) by 2026.

Western Australia has become the second state or territory to sign on to the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement, delivering record funding to its schools and introducing targeted reforms which will help WA students to catch up, keep up and finish school.  

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, it's great to be back in WA. This is the fourth time that we've had the full Ministry meet here in WA. Three times in Perth, and, of course, up in Port Hedland as well. This is, in fact, my twenty-third visit to WA as Prime Minister, and so I’m on track to fulfil the commitment that I made. And Roger and I got together last night, and we will be continuing to run into each other over the next couple of days, where we've got some important work to do.

VICE ADMIRAL MARK HAMMOND, CHIEF OF NAVY: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, the Honourable Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Albanese, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence Industry and Capability, and the Honourable Madeleine King, Minister for Resources, here in Western Australia. Members of the press, welcome to HMAS Stirling.

GARY ADSHEAD, HOST: Thanks for your time, Prime Minister.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day, Gary. Good to be with you.

ADSHEAD: Welcome back to the centre of the universe, in case you didn't know.

MARK GIBSON, HOST: The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Cabinet colleagues are in WA this week. Why? Because they know how important our state is to the outcome of the next federal election. And there are some big differences between the two major parties on policies which affect many Western Australians, like our energy future and the live export trade. Prime Minister Albanese is with me in the ABC studio. Good morning.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Great to be here.

The Albanese Government is today announcing a new Jobs for Subs program for 200 young workers required to make Submarine Rotational Force - West (SRF-W) a success.

The Nuclear-Powered Submarine Graduate, Apprenticeship and Traineeship initiative is a Government-funded recruitment and upskilling program for graduates, apprentices and trainees within ASC Pty Ltd.

Australia is a step closer to manufacturing more reliable renewables at home, with the Albanese Government’s $1 billion Solar Sunshot program now open.

Australia has always been a solar powerhouse – the ideas invented here have lit the way for the global energy transformation underway.

But while one in three Australian households have solar – the highest take-up in the world – only one per cent of those solar panels have been made in Australia.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: It's fantastic to be back in Rocky again today, this time to announce our candidate for the electorate of Capricornia. And I'm very proud that Emily Mawson will be Labor's candidate for the electorate of Capricornia. Emily is someone who grew up in the coalfields near here, finished high school at Moranbah, now lives at Yeppoon. She's someone who knows all parts of this electorate of Capricornia. She now works as a lawyer on issues including asbestos and dust diseases, the impact that it has on working people.