CANBERRA, ACT, Oct. 22 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thanks for joining us. And for the travelling media as well, thanks for making the effort of coming here to the United States for what has been my seventh visit to the United States as Prime Minister, my third since the federal election in May, and it has been a very significant visit. I'm joined today by the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Madeleine King, the Minister for Industry and Innovation, Tim Ayres, but I'm also joined by some of the private sector representatives who've been here who we're engaging with as a result of the critical minerals and rare earths agreement that we came to yesterda...