ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: We are home to every metal and critical mineral essential to net zero and we own a proven track record as a reliable producer and exporter of energy and resources. So much of the history of the Hunter speaks proudly to that but I don't want extraction to be the limit of our ambitions. I talk about Australia as a renewable energy superpower because that's the truly global scale of the opportunity and government has to be a partner in this, not just an observer.
LAURA TINGLE, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Anthony Albanese went to Newcastle last week to deliver a message that should have resonated with a city whose history has been shaped by coal mining and, for a long time, by steel making. Things changed dramatically for Newcastle in 1997 when BHP announced it was planning to close its massive steel work