Prime Minister to outline second term priorities in Press Club address

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Prime Minister will address the National Press Club in Canberra in a couple of hours, where he'll outline his priorities for his second term. In his first major speech since Labor’s emphatic election win last month, Anthony Albanese will warn the nation faces significant global uncertainty that goes beyond economic instability.

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00:00We have seen some excerpts of this speech the Prime Minister will deliver at the National

00:06Press Club. We expect it to be, essentially, Anthony Albanese outlining his agenda for

00:11Labor's second term in office, the approach he intends to take to this term of parliament.

00:17But he's using this speech to sound some warnings, essentially, about the state of democracy

00:23globally, saying that there is global uncertainty out there, but not just in an economic sense,

00:28it actually goes further than that. He sort of warns that voters globally are perhaps

00:33losing faith in government and politics to deliver for them. And he says his approach,

00:39at least, to trying to turn that around domestically here in Australia is just keeping the promises

00:44that have been made, working to have a stable government that is delivering what was promised

00:49to voters before the election. And he points to the problem, he says, of people falling

00:54through the cracks, feeling like they've been left behind and government not delivering

00:59for them. So, he's pointed to three key election pledges Labor made in spaces like healthcare,

01:04like expanding bulk billing access for people across the country, in the energy space, accelerating

01:10the renewables rollout, and also in the housing space, trying to deliver greater supplies of

01:16affordable housing around the country. So, clearly making the case that he intends to deliver

01:21on those promises, pointing out as well that Labor does have a sizeable majority in this new

01:27parliament, but making clear that those are the key priorities as he starts this second term.

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