Official Reception for President Emmanuel Macron

Last night the Prime Minister officially welcomed President Macron to Australia at a reception at the Sydney Opera House.

Here are three key quotes from his speech:

Mr President, you have written of how you first took up the thread of France’s history with your grandmother, in your home of Amiens. A century ago Australians were defending Amiens, with courage and sacrifice, writing heroic chapters in our shared history. Tomorrow, at the ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park, we will honour, as we did with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe at Villers Bretonneux, the 46,000 Australians who died on the Western Front in The First World War. You will decorate some of our veterans who fought to free France in the Second World War.

We’ll be building the most advanced submarines in the world with our partnership with Naval Group and our collaborations in arts and culture, in science, in solar energy and storage, in computing, in medicine, in marine biology, sustainable cities, engineering and so many other fields, continues apace. Your visit will accelerate all of them.

You’ve stood against the rising tide of protectionism, as we have done, notably by completing the Trans-Pacific Partnership despite the exit of the United States. An ambitious Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement will add new force — economic and strategic — to our relationship.

Read the speech in full here or watch below:

And you can watch President Macron’s remarks below.