A new report from Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) has outlined opportunities to advance gender economic equality in the jobs and skills system.

The third and final paper in JSA’s Gender Economic Equality Study identifies 10 areas for action in addressing occupational gender segregation and gendered divides in education, training and skills.

Accelerating progress towards gender economic equality will help address barriers at societal, educational, industry and workplace levels, and improve productivity and workforce sustainability.

Welcome to Canberra, everyone. And thank you for inviting me to say a few words today.

As some of you may already know, I am a massive fan of the Committee for Perth.

So much so, I sent its Boorloo Kworp — or ‘Perth is Good’ — report to all my colleagues.

There are plenty of them here today who can confirm it!

So, I could not turn down the chance to talk cities policy.

I want to note at the outset – our Government has an ambitious agenda for regional Australia.

In fact – our plans for regional Australia are right here.

A world-first Australian program supported by the Albanese Government has helped reduce the number of babies born early in Australia.

A new study published on Wednesday 29 October, in The Lancet has confirmed the success of the National Preterm Birth Prevention Program, which has significantly reduced rates of both preterm (before 37 weeks) and early term (37 to 39 weeks) births across Australia.

President,

Women should be safe, everywhere, always.

But as two horrific attacks on women running in Mulligans Flat and Tuggeranong earlier this year made painfully clear, that is still not the reality for women here in the ACT, or across Australia.

Like so many Canberrans, I was shocked and saddened by these attacks.

And in the aftermath, I joined the hundreds of women who gathered in Mulligans Flat in an act of solidarity – many with their own stories of fear, of constant vigilance and of the daily compromises women make in order to feel safe.

ROSS SOLLY, HOST: Senator Katy Gallagher, of course, a long time out of ACT politics but I'm sure she still keeps a watchful eye over what's going on. Good morning to you, Senator Gallagher, what do you make of all this?

Women and children leaving family, domestic and sexual violence (FDSV) will receive wraparound health care through an Albanese Government pilot program launched this month in Gippsland, Victoria.

In Australia, one in four women have experienced family or domestic violence and one in five have experienced sexual violence from the age of 151.

The Supporting Outreach Healthcare for Victim-Survivors of FDSV pilot program in Gippsland will boost health care in women’s crisis accommodation and related services.

PATRICIA KARVELAS, HOST: Let's bring in the political panel for today. Zoe McKenzie is the Assistant Shadow Early Learning Minister, and Patrick Gorman is the Assistant Employment Minister. Welcome to both of you. Just want to start on integrity, because it's been a big issue today and more broadly. Patrick, the Albanese Government has fared pretty poorly here. Actually doing worse than the Morrison Government. That's pretty embarrassing, isn't?

Today I rise to acknowledge a significant moment in the history of land rights in this country.

And I begin by acknowledging the Anangu people, thousands of kilometres from this place.

This weekend the Anangu gathered to celebrate a significant anniversary – and a unifying moment.

A moment I was unable to attend, but the Prime Minister and Minister Watt joined the Member for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour, the Special Envoy.

40 years since the return of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

That moment in the red heart of Australia reshaped this country.

TOM CONNELL, HOST: Welcome back. The government are trying to get through a few bills during the year. In particular, a long-awaited overhaul of environmental laws. Let's bring in the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Patrick Gorman. Where are we sitting on this? It looks as though businesses have some objections. They're kind of supportive of it. Is Labor going to compromise on this? Or is this now take it or leave it, because it's been a long time coming?

PATRICK GORMAN, ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: There are three sitting weeks left of the Parliament for 2025. And myself, the Labor team, including Julie-Ann Campbell, Member for Moreton, are all here determined to deliver in those final weeks.