Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s speech to The Advertiser’s Building a Bigger, Better South Australia

The PM will urge Aussies to show an insatiable ambition for growing the economy and boosting the nation’s “long, proud record of achievement”, in a major address in Adelaide.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will endorse aspiration by urging Australians to show an insatiable ambition for growing the economy and boosting the nation’s “long, proud record of achievement”, in a major address in Adelaide.

In an address to The Advertiser’s Building a Bigger, Better South Australia forum, Mr Albanese attributed Australia’s greatness to “the hard, patient work of generations”.

A day after unveiling a $2.4bn Whyalla steelworks rescue package alongside Premier Peter Malinauskas, Mr Albanese will insist this underlines their “governments’ belief in a bigger better South Australia”.

Delivering a pre-campaign pitch ahead of a federal election within weeks, Mr Albanese will trumpet his government’s record in delivering tax cuts and funding for health, education and skills training.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a Whyalla steelworks press conference on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Tim Joy

Mr Albanese will declare Australia “the greatest country on Earth”, arguing an “even better Australia” can be built together.

“One of the greatest ways we can express love for our country is to believe in it. And one of the greatest expressions of that belief is ambition,” Mr Albanese says, in speaking notes supplied exclusively to The Advertiser.

“Ambition for our economy. Ambition for our people. It is encouraging to see so many Australians share that ambition for our country – a country with a long, proud record of achievement, coupled with an insatiable appetite to keep adding to that record.”

Mr Albanese will argue his government is working to ease cost-of-living pressures, creating jobs and expanding opportunities to “make it easier for South Australians to keep their talents here at home”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Whyalla steel workers on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Tim Joy

Further praising aspiration, he will insist Australia is “a country whose greatness is not an accident or the jackpot of good luck, but the hard, patient work of generations”.

Mr Albanese, on his 21st visit to SA as Prime Minister, says his government is standing by Whyalla and the state.

“Standing side-by-side in Whyalla, Premier Malinauskas and I guaranteed the future of steelmaking in South Australia. It underlines our governments’ belief in a bigger, better South Australia,” Mr Albanese says.

Touting his government's Future Made In Australia policy, he says Whyalla is the “perfect example” of the economic opportunity this provides.

“With Whyalla steel we can stand more firmly on our own feet, and more resilient in an uncertain world,” Mr Albanese says.

Mr Albanese also highlights Whyalla’s “abundance of renewable energy” and the commitment to support the steelworks’ long-term transformation through a Green Iron Investment Fund.

Originally published as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s speech to The Advertiser’s Building a Bigger, Better South Australia