ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thanks for joining me. I've just returned from Bogor Palace after attending a very productive Annual Leaders’ Meeting with President Joko Widodo. My meeting with President Widodo was warm, it was productive and it was heartfelt. Though it wasn't the first time that we've met, the President and I shared not only the vision for our two countries and how we can best work together, we also shared our similar stories of humble beginnings.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: This is the first visit by any Australian Prime Minister to Makassar. Makassar is an important financial centre, it is the largest city in eastern Indonesia, and the visit here is to signify as well that the Australian Government understands that Indonesia is such a vast country and that we need to reach out. There are opportunities for Australian business and investment here in Indonesia.
Prime Minister: Thank you very much Mr President, and I thank you in addition for giving me the great honour of the bike ride that we just had. [laughs]
I can confirm to members of my delegation that there were no incidents. [laughs]
My Foreign Minister was not all that confident at the time. [laughs]
Following the swearing-in of the full ministry today we announce the following departmental and administrative changes that will help deliver better government for all Australians. These changes will take effect on 1 July 2022.
A new Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will be created to implement and administer the Government’s workplace relations, jobs, skills and training agenda.
From today, Australia joins other Commonwealth nations in celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Tonight Prime Minister the Hon Anthony Albanese MP will light a beacon in Canberra as part of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Beacons, which coincides with beacon lightings throughout the Commonwealth.
The Platinum Jubilee marks The Queen’s 70 years of dedication and service to Australia and the Commonwealth.
HOST: But right now we're joined by the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. Prime Minister, good morning to you. No need to thank us for getting you there. You don't need to do that. I know that's what you wanted to do.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning. Well, Two Tribes, I think, was the key.
HOST: Well, that's what we've been saying all morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: One went up and one went out.
HOST: Prime Minister, good morning to you. And I guess my first chance to say congratulations.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Nadia. That is very generous of you. And thanks to the people of Perth for a fantastic result with four new Members of the House of Representatives team. And I look forward to catching up with the Premier tomorrow and then again on Sunday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong, Trade Minister Senator Don Farrell, Industry Minister Ed Husic, and Member for Solomon Luke Gosling OAM, will travel to Indonesia for the Annual Leaders’ Meeting with President Widodo in Jakarta.
They will be joined on the visit by a high-level delegation of Australian business leaders.
The Prime Minister will depart Australia on Sunday 5 June, returning Tuesday 7 June.
Today the Albanese Labor Government has recommended to the Fair Work Commission’s Expert Panel conducting the Annual Wage Review that they ensure that the real wages of Australia's low paid workers do not go backwards.
One of our election commitments was to put forward our own submission to the Fair Work Commission advocating for an immediate wage increase for Australia’s low-paid workers, and today we are delivering on that promise.
For nearly a decade, low wages were a deliberate design feature of the Liberal National Government.
That era is now over.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: It is wonderful to be here to celebrate the election of Louise Miller-Frost as the first Labor member for Boothby, we've been trying for 70 years to win this seat. And it was an extraordinary outcome and one of the seats that helped put us across the line and give us 77 seats in the House of Representatives and a majority Labor Government. I have been travelling today. This is my third capital city, from here I go to Perth.