Thank you very, very much for that introduction. It is true that it's a regular thing for me now to come to these events. And it really says something about Sydney, and this breakfast says something about Paul's capacity to get you all here too. His opening at these events—I sort of felt like I was in church at one point, shake the hand of the person next to me and like, I really started to feel it, Paul, it was very good. Perhaps there's a future vocation there. 

From the very moment that I was appointed as the Assistant Minister for Trade and Assistant Minister for Manufacturing, what feels like decades ago, in 2022, the first thing I actually did was turn up with Adam Liaw, who was the then Australian Made Ambassador, to an event in Melbourne. He did a terrific job. Ariarne, you're doing a terrific job this year and this week. So, thank you very much for putting your shoulder behind the wheel for Australian Made Week. 

There are so many people to acknowledge here. All of you make a great contribution to Sydney. Of course, I want to single out for special mention Blake Solly, the CEO of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. I had dinner and watched just a small game of football the other night. Paul, that was a religious experience. It really was. Rabbitohs and Broncos. I don’t think the election night made me happy. But I'm a miserable character around elections. Even my family cross the street to avoid me during elections. I was a little bit more relaxed that night. It was absolutely terrific and a real pleasure to spend that night with you and with the team.

So many people here have made a great contribution and are making a great contribution. Tony Shepherd, Kate Carnell, Stephen Cartwright, who I didn't know had moved from business advocacy to making electric busses. I thought that he just became very enthusiastic, Stephen, you must be over there somewhere, there, about busses, and this is a very singular focus for the guy from the Chamber of Manufacturers. That's really important work for our transport system emissions reduction and Australian industry. I really look forward to working with you and your colleagues across the sector. 

But none of this matters if you're my dad. The only thing that would matter for my old man would be the fact that I got to be in the same rarefied atmosphere as one Geoffrey Lawson, who Dad absolutely idolised, and so did all the Ayres family growing up in country New South Wales, watching the cricket. It's really terrific to have you here, Geoff. I know you're a regular attender, but just for my old man's sake, I wanted to single you out. 

I just want to say a couple of really quick things. I'm, of course, absolutely delighted that we were re-elected a few weeks ago. But when the Prime Minister says, and some of the figures in the government say, that we are absolutely determined to continue, in a very deliberate way, implementing the agenda that we are elected to deliver in the same kind of way that we did that work in 2022, to build upon the foundations of what we have done, that is really what we mean. 

We take, firstly, the election outcome as an absolutely humbling outcome for us. We do not take any of that for granted. We know that progress for Australia at what is a very consequential decade for this country and the region of the world in which we live, I was saying to Tony Shepherd before, a sort of challenge rich environment for Australia, that requires cooperation across the Australian community, working with the business community, working with our institutions, bringing Australians together, not pulling them apart. It is not just a political mantra for us, but it is the way that we want to work. 

That does not mean all the time that there will be agreement, but it does mean working in lockstep with the business community and right across the Australian community. We want that to be a hallmark of the way that people think about the government, and we want that to be consistent with your experience of working with the government. And in the role that I'm absolutely honoured to be appointed to, that is absolutely vital work. Our Future Made in Australia ambitions to change the shape of the Australian economy in our national interest and make Australia more economically resilient for all of the commercial and security and economic resilience reasons that I won't spend a long time on at this breakfast – those are absolutely vital in our national interest, and it requires, in industry, in science, in research and development terms, Australians coming together, work on these important national projects. 

Australian Made Week is such an important part of that. We did make some commitments during the election to an economic resilience package that was designed to bring together some of those elements of our economic agenda in response to what is not only going to be a set of bilateral challenges in the trading relationship with the United States, but the second-round impacts in the global trading environment. I think what concerns us most, that reinforces the government's drive towards building Australia's economic resilience, diversifying the markets with whom we trade, diversifying the products and services that we offer the world, lifting Australian firms up the value chain so there are as a result of which there will be more good jobs and more investment opportunity for the Australian business community. That's the direction that we are pointed in. I know that you support that.

Australian Made Week, and the Australian Made Campaign was an element of the package that we announced. We know that that kind of patriotism that sits behind that green and gold logo is going to be a crucial asset, not just for the firms who have it on their products, but it's a crucial asset as we bring Australians together to meet the challenges of the coming years and the coming decade. That is why we put Australian Made at the centre of that set of announcements.

Your work, all of you together, supporting Ben and the team at Australian Made is an absolutely vital part of that architecture, and we want to put our shoulder behind the wheel and support your work.

Thanks very much for the opportunity to say just a few things this morning. I really look forward to working with all of you and coming back to the next Australian Made Breakfast in 2026, which just seems like a very long way away anyway. Thank you very much.