CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 14 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: EMMA COMER, MEMBER FOR PETRIE: Well, welcome everyone. Welcome to a beautiful Queensland winter day, I'm joined here with the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister actually secured the funding as Infrastructure Minister for the Red Cliff Railway Line, which has been an absolute asset to our community, getting people to the city to work right away. And now we've also got fifty cent fares, so that's amazing...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 14 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: HOST: Look who's here. We saw him eating up a storm yesterday at the EKKA, and he's in the studio this morning. Albo, the Prime Minister. Good morning. PRIME MINISTER: Great to be with you. The diet went out the window yesterday, I've got to say. HOST: It's always a headlines, isn't it, where how you eat the strawberry sundae - PRIME MINISTER: There is no good way to be filmed or photographed eating...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 14 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: HOST: Triple M good times, greatest hits. Marto, Margaux and Dan with you, please be up standing for the national anthem. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joins us in the studio. Good morning, Albo. ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you. I, unlike Marto, have turned up in person. HOST: I know. HOST: Well, we should explain, I'm at Moreton Island. And Albo, you should visit Moret...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 14 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: M1 upgrade, Economic Reform Roundtable, housing, Australia to recognise Palestinian state Julie‑Ann Campbell: Well, good morning, everyone, and welcome to a brand new park 'n' ride facility. Today is a fantastic day for people who live on the south side of Brisbane. It's a fantastic day for people who live in Logan. And it's a fantastic day for those who want to spend less time in traff...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 13 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Audio of AFP media conference available via Hightail. A Victorian man, 41, has been charged following an incident at Sydney Airport about 6am today (13 August, 2025). AFP officers responded to a request for assistance from an airline about a man allegedly acting suspiciously in the T2 domestic terminal. When officers tried to speak to the man, he allegedly became verbally and physically agg...
Belconnen, ACT, Aug. 13 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: ACT Policing has charged three teenagers after they allegedly drew Nazi symbols in a shopping centre bathroom. On the evening of Thursday 19 June (2025), police were called to a bathroom at the South.Point shopping centre after graffiti depicting prohibited Nazi symbols was discovered. Police located 18 Nazi Hakenkreuz symbols and three references to Adolf Hitler drawn on the walls of the bathroom. Following an inves...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 13 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following media release: New data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that annual real wages have now grown for seven consecutive quarters under the Albanese Labor Government. We've recorded the strongest annual real wages growth in fiveyears and the longest run of real wages growth above 0.7percent in a decade, according to today's figures. Real wages were falling sharpy under the Liberals, but today's figures ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 13 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: interest rate cuts, productivity, Economic Reform Roundtable, Australia to recognise Palestinian state Peter Stefanovic: Treasurer, thanks for your time this morning. Looks like we're matching. Hey, how about that? So, good news for homeowners. Jim Chalmers: Not for the first time, Pete. Stefanovic: Exactly. Good news for homeowners yesterday, Treasurer. But it does mask deeper issues for...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 13 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript: Note Subjects: interest rate cut, productivity, Economic Reform Roundtable, EV road‑user charge, Snoop Dogg to perform at the AFL Grand Final Karl Stefanovic: Treasurer, do you- thanks for joining us by the way. Do you take any responsibility at all for the majority of Australians being poorer and having lower living standards now? Jim Chalmers: Well, a couple of things about that, Karl. I take resp...
CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 13 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force Editor's note: An image of the seizure available via Hightail. The AFP and Australian Border Force (ABF) are examining potential links between an 80kg cocaine shipment destined for Sydney and a 253kg seizure in Brisbane two months ago. Packages in the most recent detection in a container bound for Port Botany,...