 Hi everybody, thank you for being here but thank you also for many of you accompanying me on the various events we had today. It's been a pretty jam-packed day and I want to say I've really enjoyed my first visit here as foreign minister, my first visit to Solomon Islands as foreign minister. We said when we were elected we would bring more energy and more resources to the Pacific and we have tried to do that. You've seen that here today, first with the vaccines announcement at the school. I was really pleased to go to St George the sixth school where we announced an additional 200,000 vaccines, this time pediatric vaccines for kids 5 to 11. This is on top of the in excess of half a million vaccines that Australia has been really pleased to provide to Solomon Islands as we work together to come through the pandemic and speaking to many of the staff at the school, the Department of Health and other staff obviously one of the major challenges here in Solomon Islands is logistics and I really want to thank the Australian personnel who've not only helped deliver the vaccines into Honiara but to distribute them because that logistics support has been really well received. We've talked a lot about being part of the Pacific family and we mean it and can I say to you I really felt that today when we went to Burns Creek with the health minister Togamana with Premier Sade, a Malayton community where you saw the Pacific family on display so Australians, New Zealanders, Fijians and young people from the community. Did you know that young people from the community helped work together to build that clinic? What a wonderful example of what we can do when we work together and it was a great privilege to be welcomed in the way I was. Of course this meeting I did have a constructive meeting with Prime Minister Sogavare. It was a wide-ranging meeting, a meeting that canvassed the breadth of our relationship. Obviously we did talk about regional security. Australia's view does remain that the Pacific family should be responsible for our security and the Pacific family is more than capable of providing that security. I welcomed Prime Minister Sogavare's reassurances that there will not be a military base nor a persistent foreign military presence here in Solomon Islands and I welcome his assurance that Australia remains Solomon Islands first security partner of choice and first development partner of choice. We've discussed a number of other areas as I said across the breadth of the relationship infrastructure, health, education, labour mobility and of course also climate change and one of the important things that has changed in Australia is that the Australian people voted for a parliament and a government that will bring much more ambition to the issue of climate change and I know from discussions I've had today but also from our previous experience as climate minister many years ago that for Pacific Island nations such as Solomon Islands climate change is real, it is a lived reality and we want to work with you to ensure greater resilience to that reality as well as Australia doing the right thing in its own economy. I'm happy to take questions. Dorothy. Well actually sorry yeah the young man who spoke to me at the clinic who's the youth representative from the community he spoke to me about labour mobility and obviously we are working with local community and with the government on development more broadly but what has been raised with me is labour mobility. We come to government with a commitment to strengthen labour mobility between our nation and members of the Pacific Island nations. I understand you know that's an area where we certainly can assist with opportunities as well as economic benefit to families and to individuals. Are you suggesting anything that they need to be considered? As I said in my opening we did discuss regional security and obviously that is one of the issues that the region has been discussing and you know I think the Prime Minister is aware of Australia's concerns and views but most importantly he is aware that Australia like many other members of the Pacific family is of the view that our regional security is a joint responsibility and it is a responsibility the Pacific family and as I said at the outset I welcome the Prime Minister's assurances which are the same assurances he's given publicly that there's the government does not intend for there to be a persistent military presence or or foreign military base here in Solomon Islands. I think you had a question. Well look that hasn't been raised with me formally obviously you know we would Australia's always taken the view that democracy matters and democratic conventions are important and that would remain our view. Those issues were raised in the meetings today and have been raised in my meetings in Fiji and Samoa and Tonga as well and I'm pleased that there's been a positive response obviously there are issues we want to work through including the one you reference which is how would we allocate as between different Pacific island nations it's a visa as you know is modeled on the New Zealand visa arrangement that particularly obviously the Polynesian islands have engaged with New Zealand in that way so we'll work through the details including how much how what is the allocation for each Pacific island nation with with your government and with others anyone more you go yes well I just so you can avoid with a little bit of history I was the climate minister in 2007 to 2010 when we were elected as a Labor government with a very strong position on climate change Prime Minister Albanese was the person when we're in opposition who drafted our policy for government so you you have the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia both who have a very personal commitment to action on climate but more importantly you've seen in the election the election of a government and a parliament where Australians do want stronger action on climate we've actually lodged our NDC at the United Nations or under the UN convention outlining a much more ambitious plan not only have we committed to the 50 percent as to the net zero by 2050 we have a commitment for 2030 of a 43 percent reduction that would lead to in terms of renewable energy I think it's 82 percent of our energy being provided from renewable energy sources so we are serious about this the other thing we want to do is to talk with Pacific Island nations about engagement stronger engagement including potentially holding a conference of the parties to to try and press the issue when when I was climate minister and still today I think that the voices of smaller island nations has been very have been powerful and authentic in the UN negotiations okay thank you very much I hope one more is there last sorry hello last one well look Australia will do what Australia thinks is the right thing to do all right we will work with you on your development on your health priorities on your education priorities on your climate priorities and on your security priorities and we have and we have under successive governments we have we have sought to do that we may not have been perfect but we are family we live in the same region your security and our security are interlinked and that's how we will approach our relationship with you thank you very much everybody it was great to be here cheers thank you I'll see you next time