ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: It’s fantastic to be back in Western Australia yet again, for what I think is my eighth visit to Western Australia this year, to be here in the beautiful city of Albany and to be a part of the rollout of a fibre-based National Broadband Network services. This upgrade that will be funded in the budget is $2.4 billion to make sure that an additional 1.5 million premises can be connected up to fibre based NBN services. It's about high-speed broadband, it's about bringing Australia into the 21st century.

GEOFF HUTCHISON, HOST: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Welcome to the studio.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be here.

HUTCHISON: David Rowe drawing in the FIN Review. Have a look at that. Had you and Katy Gallagher and Jim Chalmers desperately sandbagging the economy ahead of next week's budget, what is your most pressing concern?

OLIVER PETERSON, HOST: In just five days, the Federal Government will hand down its first budget since coming into office in May. Since then, interest rates have increased on five occasions, they're tipped to go up again next month, and inflation is soaring. The nation is in the midst of a cost of living crisis. Unemployment numbers today sit at 3.5%. Just 900 jobs were added last month. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese joins me live here in the 6PR studios today. Welcome back to Perth.

The Australian Government is fully committed to delivering the Western Australia Comprehensive Cancer Centre, to provide world class care and better health outcomes for people with cancer.

Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in Australia, and in Western Australia three in every ten deaths occurs as a result of cancer.

The new centre will improve patient survival rates, enhance quality of life, and help reduce the necessity to travel long distance for treatment.

Establishing the centre will create around 500 new jobs during the construction phase.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Can we begin by speaking briefly about the floods. This morning we've had the opportunity to visit the communities of Deloraine and Latrobe, following Monday, my visits to Forbes and Parkes in western New South Wales, and then on Sunday I visited Bendigo and also Rochester with the Victorian Premier. What I have seen throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania is the devastating impacts of these floods. My heart goes out to the communities who have been impacted.

1. The Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon Anthony Albanese MP and the Prime Minister of Singapore, His Excellency Lee Hsien Loong met for the 7th Australia-Singapore Annual Leaders’ Meeting in Canberra on 18 October 2022. The Prime Ministers welcomed the strength and depth of bilateral relations between the two countries, anchored in shared strategic and economic interests.

Australia and Singapore have signed a first-of-its-kind Green Economy Agreement (GEA).

The landmark bilateral agreement between Australia and Singapore—our largest two-way trading partner in Southeast Asia—will support Australian businesses to seize economic opportunities presented by the global clean energy transformation.

The GEA builds on existing cooperation between Australia and Singapore to take action on climate change and strengthen trade and investment in clean energy across our region.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Well thank you very much for joining us. Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, said this: “We are one interacting, interdependent world. The problems besetting the world are transnational and the solutions must be transnational.” Today, we open a new chapter in the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Australia and Singapore. The Green Economy Agreement signals collective resolve to confront challenges as we transition our economies to net zero.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Mr Kishida Fumio, to Australia on 22 October as a Guest of Government.

Prime Minister Albanese and Prime Minister Kishida will meet in Perth for the Annual Australia–Japan Leaders’ Meeting. This will be the first visit to Australia by a Japanese Prime Minister since 2018.

The Albanese Government’s first investments from the Rewiring the Nation plan, will fast- track critical Tasmanian projects to unlock cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy and put downward pressure on energy prices.