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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation Vive News this morning, Western

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Speaker 1: Sydney Airport is now Western Sydney International Aeratropolis. Thank you Aerotropolis.

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Speaker 1: To tell us more, we walk on the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: this morning. Good morning, Prime Minister, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Great to be with you on a beautiful Sydney day.

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Speaker 3: What a beautiful day we're looking on at the harbor.

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Speaker 3: It's just beautiful. Where would you live? You wouldn't go

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Speaker 3: anywhere else in the world.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I'm about to arrive at the new Western

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Speaker 2: Sydney International Airport where Singapore Airlines is ready for takeoff.

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Speaker 2: This is a big deal because Singapore Airlines, as we

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Speaker 2: all know, is one of the world's great hubs that

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Speaker 2: will give direct access right throughout Asia into Europe in

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Speaker 2: the so many destinations. And it's a boat of confidence

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Speaker 2: in Western Sydney and in this new airport.

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Speaker 3: Are they flying a plane out of there today or

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Speaker 3: is this just yes today? I know that the announcement.

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Speaker 3: But when you just had me excited, Albo's gone, what

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Speaker 3: there's a plane going to be taken off from there?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got to build it up, but the runway

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Speaker 2: is ready to go. Let me tell you the runway

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Speaker 2: is ready to go. Construction is eighty five percent complete.

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Speaker 2: The terminal's done that needs some fit out. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be one of the best airports in the world

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Speaker 2: and certainly the most up to date and officient airport

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Speaker 2: in Australia. It's going to be quite extraordinary. It's already

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Speaker 2: created nine thousand jobs during construction, half a billion dollars

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Speaker 2: in contracts for Western Sydney small and medium sized businesses,

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Speaker 2: and it's leading as well to there's seventeen billion dollars

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Speaker 2: of transport infrastructure, under way roads and the railway line

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Speaker 2: to the airport. It's going to be just a really

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Speaker 2: dynamic piece of infrastructure that will drive investment throughout the

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Speaker 2: whole region.

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Speaker 3: Of the trains sink up because I was just thinking,

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Speaker 3: say Anthony, for example, lands in Sydney, but he lives

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Speaker 3: in Marrickville and he ends up at the Aratropolis. He

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Speaker 3: wants to get from their Badgery's Creek to Marrickville. How's

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Speaker 3: that all going to work?

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Speaker 2: Well, eventually we'll all connect up. The rail line will

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Speaker 2: go to Leppington and link up with the Southwest line

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Speaker 2: that'll go through there. So we need to extend it

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Speaker 2: in my view down to MacArthur and we're talking with

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Speaker 2: the New South Wales government about that bill connect Essentially

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Speaker 2: a North South line is well under construction, well underway.

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Speaker 2: I was out there with Premier Inns about a month

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Speaker 2: ago looking at construction with the big tunnel boring machines

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Speaker 2: which are there, and it's just going to be so

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Speaker 2: important to drive that as you said, and Aratropolis, which

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Speaker 2: basically means that if you want to drive investment, having

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Speaker 2: a freight harb and having transport connections to the world

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Speaker 2: will encourage businesses to be located around the airport and

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Speaker 2: that will be a huge driver of jobs. So between

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Speaker 2: that and the more Bank in a modal that is

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Speaker 2: Australia's best. An incredible facility there at more Bank, with

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Speaker 2: the trains connecting up right around the East coast and

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Speaker 2: a real logistics hub. You have big facilities therewhere.

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Speaker 3: Can I just interrupt it and make such a difference.

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Speaker 3: Amanda's eyes are glazing over because as soon as you

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Speaker 3: mentioned infrastructure, guys like me, I can hear intermodal all day.

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Speaker 3: I can hear a bit.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I find interesting about this? This

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Speaker 1: will be a very modern airport in little bit. It's

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Speaker 1: open twenty four hours a day. It'll be curfew free,

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Speaker 1: which is how other places operate all around the world.

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Speaker 1: That'll make quite a difference.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is going to make an incredible difference and

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Speaker 2: it will mean more competition. It's just about jobs and

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Speaker 2: the economy. And for too long Sydney has always looked

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Speaker 2: towards the CBD and towards the east. This will turn

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Speaker 2: Sydney towards the west. It will make an incredible difference

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Speaker 2: to the economy here in Western Sydney.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're very proud of it, you know. I

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Speaker 3: just love the new Metro is just fantastic.

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Speaker 1: That's world class.

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Speaker 3: Call me old, but I'm just getting into it. Maybe

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Speaker 3: because I'm heading towards cheap travel on the trains, but

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Speaker 3: it's just fantastic. It all works, it is.

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Speaker 1: And can I ask your Prime Minister. I also was

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Speaker 1: interviewed as you were, for the TV show The Assembly,

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Speaker 1: where nineteen autistic journalism students grilled us. How did you

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Speaker 1: find the experience?

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Speaker 2: I find I found it very daunting, let me say,

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Speaker 2: because look, it was just a lovely thing to do

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Speaker 2: my episodes on next week and I I found it

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Speaker 2: it quite extloyded, no holds barred. Of course, nothing was

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Speaker 2: off limits, so you got all sorts of questions from

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Speaker 2: left field, but they were just exciting people. I think

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Speaker 2: it's a great initiative and really good viewing. I've had

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Speaker 2: a sneak look at a couple of episodes on iView

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Speaker 2: and it's just a great thing, really good people. They

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Speaker 2: put a lot of work into their questions, clearly a

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Speaker 2: lot of thought into it.

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Speaker 3: Is it true they asked you how many girls have

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Speaker 3: you kissed?

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Speaker 2: No, they did ask me about whether I was getting

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Speaker 2: enough kisses off Jody.

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Speaker 1: And not Toto the dog.

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Speaker 2: Toto got to run. Of course, Toto gets to run.

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Speaker 2: And it was very personally. It was much more, much

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Speaker 2: more daunting than the normal interviews that you do because

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Speaker 2: you didn't know what was going to be asked next,

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Speaker 2: and they were intelligent, smart questions that were asked, and

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Speaker 2: it was a really good event.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing and very moving.

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Speaker 2: How did you find it? A man?

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Speaker 1: Exactly the same in that every question is asked with

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Speaker 1: an intensity that needs to be respected, and so the

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Speaker 1: questions weren't from do you love your husband? To do

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Speaker 1: you like house plants? It was kind of, you know, you.

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Speaker 3: Never knew what was coming now, Albo. She did say

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Speaker 3: to me, she's been working with me for some years now,

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Speaker 3: so he's a house plan. She was kind of she

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Speaker 3: was kind of used to the questioning, well, mate, it's great,

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Speaker 3: this is a great day for us. You look after

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Speaker 3: yourself with those boring machines and I'm not talking about Parliament.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about the infrastructure, boring machines. And thank you

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Speaker 3: for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Have a great day everyone, Thank you too, Anthony Albanezi.

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Speaker 2: There