NARELDA JACOBS, HOST: The Prime Minister joins us now. Thank you so much for taking some time, Prime Minister. Can you start by telling us, do you remember the moment you heard what had occurred in Bali?
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: I do, and it came as such a shock because Bali is a place where Australians have gone for generations to enjoy each other's company, to gather at the end of season footy trips or sporting club organisations. It's a place of joy and celebration, and to see it scarred by this horrific attack on our humanity was indeed shocking. The attacks at the Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar led to 88 Australians losing their lives, 202 global citizens losing their lives. And it had such a shock that reverberated as the shockwave came onto our shore.
ANGELA BISHOP, HOST: Prime Minister, it is often described as the day terror came to Australia's doorstep. How do you think that night changed us?
PRIME MINISTER: It changed us firstly by remembering the families and friends who will be commemorating their lost loved ones. It awakened us post-September 11, that happened just the year before, to the fact that we were not immune to this barbaric ideology that sought to wreak havoc and destruction on our humanity and sought to divide us. One of the things that came out of Bali, though, was that it did not divide us. It united us as humanity. We worked closely with Indonesia. We hugged each other so much more tightly during the aftermath of the bombings. The remarkable bravery we saw from people running towards danger, not away from danger, to help their fellow citizens. The remarkable skills that we saw from the medical fraternity and emergency services and police who assisted not just in Bali, but in Darwin and in Perth and in other places around Australia to save lives and to repair some of the damage that had been done against our Australian citizens. It was a very dark time, it is one in which today we commemorate, it's a solemn occasion. But we also think about he the fact that our democracy and our unity was made stronger by the response Australians had, our determination to not be cowed, to still continue to live our way of life in freedom and democracy.
TRISTAN MACMANUS, HOST: Have you expressed your displeasure at President Joko Widodo regarding the planned early release of bombmaker Umar Patek? Do you accept that he has been rehabilitated?
PRIME MINISTER: Australia made our position very clear and we will continue to make representations, appropriately, to our friends in Indonesia.
JACOBS: There are memorial services happening around the country and in Bali. There is one at the site in Kuta and one at Parliament House. Why have you chosen to attend the special service at Coogee?
PRIME MINISTER: This is a very large event today here in Coogee. The Coogee Dolphins Football Club lost so many of their members and it's had a reverberation 20 years on which remains to this day. The family and friends of those victims will be gathered here this morning and I am honoured to participate with them for many years. I've attended the memorial at Petersham Town Hall that was held for the members of the Dulwich Hill Newtown Basketball Club and their families who lost their lives there as well. Debbie and Abbey Borgia have a community centre in Marrickville named after them. They were a mother and young daughter, a member of the basketball team. Her mum travelled with her to Bali and they lost their lives. She was the youngest victim. Right around Australia there will be commemorations and I have attended commemorations, sadly, for 20 years of this event. It's important that we do remember the victims, that we pay tribute to them, that we give some comfort to their families. It's also important that we remember that we need to be vigilant on national security issues, that we need to continue to provide support to ASIO and ASIS and the Australian Federal Police and the Defence Force and the Office of National Intelligence. It's a tribute to those services that we have not had a major attack on shore but a number of potential attacks have been thwarted due to the hard work and diligence of our intelligence agencies.
JACOBS: Prime Minister, I am sure survivors and victims’ families will also be comforted by your presence at the service you are at today and we are thinking of all of them at this time. Thank you for joining us on Studio 10.
PRIME MINISTER: Thanks very much and may these victims just rest in eternal peace.