CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 9 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
JAMES GLENDAY, HOST: Well, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is out and about this morning and he's happy to say that he's joining us live from north of Newcastle on a road. Prime Minister, welcome back to the program. It's a Sitting Week in Canberra but you've skipped town. Why are you up near Newcastle?
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Because this piece of highway that I'm on that'll open on Friday, just north of Newcastle, travelling 15 kilometres to Raymond Terrace - everyone who's ever driven from Sydney to Brisbane or in this region knows that when you hit areas like Hexham and Heatherbrae, you hit a traffic jam. Now this will mean that...