Transcripts

Interview with Patricia Karvelas, RN Drive

**Check against delivery** 2 July 2020   PATRICIA KARVELAS:     Today Prime Minister Scott Morrison signalled Australia might join the US and the UK in offering safe haven to people fleeing the new national security law imposed on Hong Kong by China. Alex Hawke is the…

Interview with Chris Kenny, Sky News

**Check against delivery** 1 July 2020   CHRIS KENNY: Let's go to the Assistant Defence Minister, Alex Hawke, now who joins us via Skype. Thanks for joining us, Minister. Just briefly on this logo first up, you promote Australia's interests throughout the South Pacific especially. Don't you…

ABC Q&A

**Check against delivery** 2 December 2019   TONY JONES Good evening and welcome to Q&A Pacific. I’m Tony Jones. We’re broadcasting tonight from the University of the South Pacific, in Suva, Fiji, with: Director of the Pacific Fisheries Agency, Manu Tupou-Roosen; the man who will be Fiji’s…

Sydney Institute Q&A

**Check against delivery**   GERARD HENDERSON: Many thanks to the Minister for a very comprehensive speech, and there are a lot of people here tonight and we've got to the top of the hour for questions and discussion. So I ask you to keep your questions or your comments short, like this…

Remarks at RFNS Stanley Brown, Fiji

Alex Hawke: Thank you and good morning everyone.  Thank you for that very warm welcome from Minister Inia Seruiratu, Minister for Defence, National Security and Foreign Affairs.  Thank you to the acting Commander of the Navy, Commander Marika Vosawale, I appreciate your words.  To…

28th Proliferation Security Initiative Operational Experts Group Meeting, Canberra

Well, good morning everyone and welcome to Canberra, firstly, and thank you, Celia for that warm introduction. Certainly, I'd like to welcome all of our guests from overseas. I'd also like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respects to the…

Sky News, interview with Chris Kenny

HOST: As you saw at the top of the program, a big day in Canberra unfolding on the domestic political front, but also an important overseas visitor in the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, James Marape, talking to Scott Morrison and others about all sorts of issues including border protection,…

Remarks - Handover of Guardian-class Patrol Boat to Kingdom of Tonga - Perth, WA

Good morning everyone and thank you for that warm welcome. It's a privilege to be here today. I want to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, the Whadjuk Noongar people, their elders past and present, and of course acknowledging His Royal Highness, Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala. Thank…