 I think it captures everyone, yeah, whether it might be a recording thing, that's fine. I just welcome the media. We're very fortunate to welcome the Honourable Senator Wong from Australia, Minister of Foreign Affairs. So very soon after the new administration has taken over, and also she arrives as we begin our celebrations of our 60th anniversary independence. I'd also just like to mention that another key milestone, which is aptly commemorated during this visit is that we're celebrating 50 years of diplomatic ties with Australia. So, Minister, I'd like to invite you to make your remarks. If I need to, I'll say something. Otherwise, I understand the media, you have five questions. Well, thank you very much, Prime Minister, and thank you for receiving me. I'm very grateful, as the Prime Minister said. We obviously have a new government in Australia. We were elected on the 20th something of May, and I was sworn in 10 days ago. So this is my second bilateral visit, the first being to Fiji, and I want to thank the Prime Minister and the government for making us very welcome, and I want to thank your country for 50 years of partnership with Australia. It's a relationship we value deeply. I also extend my congratulations for your 60th anniversary of independence. I'm sure that was a very stirring celebration for some of us. We've had a very good meeting, I think, and I've been very pleased today to see some of the ways in which we're working together in areas such as health and development. If I may, Prime Minister, just to say, a new Australian government has been formed. We want to put more energy and more resources into the Pacific. We have made a commitment to engage more closely and to listen respectfully. We understand we need to work together as part of the Pacific family in ways we are called on to do so now more than ever. We want to make a uniquely Australian contribution to the Pacific family, and most importantly, I want to be very clear that we are deeply committed to taking stronger action on climate. We were elected with a mandate to do so, and we understand how important climate change is to this Prime Minister, to the leaders and peoples of all Pacific nations. When I was climate minister and I was climate change minister many years ago, 2007 to 2010, the experience of island nations was crystal clear, and your voices have become even stronger since that time. So I want to be very clear with you, there is a lot of bipartisanship in the relationship. Both parties of government in Australia value our relationship with the Pacific family deeply, but on this issue there is a change in direction, and we look forward to working with you. So thank you for your hospitality Prime Minister and for your welcome, and for your leadership in the region. Thank you. As the senator has intimated, climate change of course is very high on the priorities of both our respective governments. We are very pleased in Samoa and no doubt the Pacific region that with the new Australian government the policy shift brings them closer to alignment with the Pacific advocacy for climate change. We feel that this will strengthen the Pacific positions on climate change, and of course we've worked closely with Australia, especially in responses to climate impact, and I do want to recognize your former administrations. We agree to differ, but then as we do as partners in development we keep moving forward in ways that we are able to move forward, but we feel that senator with your policy stance we are greatly encouraged not only in Samoa, but I'm sure for the other Pacific countries. I have indicated Samoa's appreciation of Australia's assistance to us, especially in our COVID response, together with our other partners, and part of her visit here as you've seen in the press release. She was able to participate in an event to further our collaboration in the health sector, but more generally too under the project of the Tautua for All. We've covered a range of issues, RSE workers, the security issues that seem to be high on the media attention, and most importantly we have discussed the unity of the region and how important that is to carry forward the positions of our region, but to also ensure that with unity we can bring a higher level of development to our respective countries. So once again I'm very happy to receive this visit from the Minister of Foreign Affairs from Australia, and I wish you all the best in your in your work and I look forward to collaborating with you further. So should we go to questions? The Minister has one more particular announcement. On one issue obviously support from Australia for maritime patrols, but patrol boats has been an important part of our relationship, and I was pleased to advise the Prime Minister today that Australia was that we would announce today a replacement Guardian class patrol boat to replace the Napa Nua II. I know that this this will occur in about I think it's the 20th next year, so we obviously have some production time, but we're very busy with our replacement. We do understand how important these maritime these maritime assets are to island nations, so I was pleased to advise the Prime Minister that we would be doing so. Can we all take? Yeah, can I just say that our government is very appreciative of this further development in our partnership with Australia. I think it's very generous on the part of the Australian government and people that they are gifting us yet another patrol boat despite the unfortunate circumstances of our last boat, and I hope that the lessons learned from that unfortunate appearance will help us ensure that we can keep these assets that are generously gifted by our partners and especially in a very critical area of our maritime security. So thank you very much Senator. Yeah, go for CD. Well, the current rules I was referring to was the war in our domestic politics that we've seen or the conflict in our domestic politics on climate that we've seen over the last 10 years, which the Australian people have voted to end. And that that's I think a very reasonable assessment of the election. But you ask a policy question. I think we'll do we are committed to doing a number of things. The first is we will lodge a much more ambitious NDC under the Paris agreement. Our commitment is a 43% reduction by 2030 along with the net zero emissions. We will legislate the 2050 target. We will put in place stronger mechanisms to actually achieve the target. For example, and I know some eyes been very focused on renewable energy. Obviously, Australia being has a has had a very reasonably carbon intensive economy. So we understand we have to transition. The market has been doing that transitioning, but government certainty, government policy will accelerate that and will actually reduce electricity prices compared to what they would otherwise be. We anticipate under our policy framework around about 83% of our national grid will be powered by renewable energy by the end of the decade. So that's a very substantial change in our plans. So during the election, you're correct and thank you for being aware of what we said during the election. We made a number of commitments. We made a number of commitments on the Pacific. And they were driven by the desire to ensure that the policy, the result, the investment, the resources, the energy and the policy framework for the Pacific reflected a uniquely Australian contribution. And one of the things we can offer as a member of the Pacific family is access to our labour market as you know, but we did listen to what the criticisms or the concerns raised by some stakeholders. And one of them is the difficulty for people to take their family to Australia. So we did propose as part of our election policies that for the longer visa, so there's the shorter term visa, eight to nine months, which is the seasonal workers program, the Pacific labour scheme visa, which is longer, that we would change those visa conditions to enable people to bring their families with them because many workers and representatives from participant nations that said to us that is a real barrier to people participating. I've only been in this job for 10 days, but we will work through that. We will also work with those countries whose workers, whose citizens do come to Australia on the implementation, because there are some, you know, issues which... Right, so I'll answer the second part of that question first, if I may. The Pacific exchange visa is an election policy that we were without, you know, that is government policy. And we announced that in order to provide a limited number of Pacific Island citizens with the option of a pathway to permanent residency in Australia. So we identified it as 3000. It's modeled on, and you might know this better than I, a New Zealand visa arrangement. We will work with the region on the details of that implementation, because obviously we would not want to have a situation where you might have too many applicants from a particular nation that might not be sustainable. So we will work through that with the region, which would go to issues such as the one you just identified. Just a minute. You, and then back to you. And there will be five, right? I'm going to bring the Prime Minister to Australia. She can do all my press conferences. Yes. Did you watch it? Oh, that's good. Yes, two questions. I can expect that could be changed in your government's implementation of this place. Okay. Second question first. Well, I was the shadow trade minister, so I have had some engagement with some of the issues you speak about. I would make the point that obviously Sinspacer Plus was ratified. We have had COVID. So the utilisation by virtue of that is going to be less. It's always implementation of a trade agreement is always challenging. The negotiation of a trade agreement is challenging, and then the implementation is challenging. So we understand that. So I was at the High Commission today, and people spoke about the establishment of an implementation unit for Sinspacer Plus. I think here in Tamil will be guided by Pacific priorities, and particularly the exporters and their engagement with us about what could be done to pick up utilisation. We do have, if the non-trade barrier you're referring to is our quarantine and biosecurity arrangements, I mean that they are things which apply to all nations, so that this is a long-standing position of Australia. You asked what is the one issue I have been itching to, I thought, to implement this climate. I spent a lot of years trying to change our country's position on climate. I was at Copenhagen. I have two daughters. I would like us to be able to say to our children that we did something. I think that matters. Senator, our Prime Minister has recommended a proposed China regional agreement which is a meaningful discussion, but the island nations with the Pacific Island forum is, so what's the decision in Australia's decision? Do you want me to? Well I think if I may, your Prime Minister has shown a lot of leadership and wisdom, not only now, but I think in many of her statements about the importance of robust regional architecture, respectful regional processes, to deal with some of the external circumstances we all find ourselves in. We have taken the view that regional security is an issue for the Pacific family. We have taken, consistently taken the view that what sovereign nations do, and sovereign nations are sovereign, but ultimately have the potential to affect the nature of the security arrangements of the region. So having a collective consideration of those matters is important. I think that's a long-winded way of saying I think it was a very wise intervention. If I could just add a little bit more. You know it's been reported that apparently supposedly we had signed on to this proposal from the Chinese government. I think that's been a misrepresentation. I want to use the press conference just to clarify that. The signing that took place here last week that some of you came to were bilateral programs, projects. Most of them had started a number of years ago and it was a formalizing process, which is a normal process. It just seemed a bit abnormal because the Minister of Foreign Affairs was here and there was this particular proposal from the Chinese that they were seeking regional agreement on. So our position was that you cannot have regional agreement when the region hasn't met to discuss it and to be called in to have that discussion and have an expectation that there would be a comprehensive decision or outcome was something that you know we could not agree to. So I think the region has come to that conclusion that you know this we need to meet as a region to consider any proposal that's put to us by our development partners that requires a regional agreement. So I just hope that's clear. Well I think there's five questions. Thank you, thank you Minister.