The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet's PM Transcripts site provides transcripts of more than 20,000 speeches, media releases, and interviews by Australian Prime Ministers. These transcripts can be searched online, and the underlying XML files can be downloaded using a simple API. This repository includes transcripts harvested from the PM Transcripts site, together with a CSV index, and aggregations of transcripts by Prime Minister.
These datasets were generated using notebooks in the GitHub - GLAM-Workbench/pm-transcripts · GitHub repository.
For more information and documentation see the PM Transcripts data - GLAM Workbench section of the GLAM Workbench.
- pms/combined (directory containing 18 files)
- pms/zips (directory containing 18 files)
- pms/speech (directory containing 18 files)
- transcripts (directory containing 28,560 files)
- index.csv (4.9 MB, text/csv)
| date harvested | 2026-09-12 |
| number of files | 18 |
| format | directory |
| created by | Aggregate transcripts by PM (documentation) |
| description | One text file for each Prime Minister containing the aggregated contents of all the XML transcript files. |
| license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence |
| copyright | Commonwealth of Australia |
| date harvested | 2026-09-12 |
| number of files | 18 |
| format | directory |
| created by | Aggregate transcripts by PM (documentation) |
| description | One zip file for each Prime Minister containing the aggregated XML transcript files. |
| license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence |
| copyright | Commonwealth of Australia |
| date harvested | 2026-09-10 |
| number of files | 18 |
| format | directory |
| created by | Aggregate transcripts by PM (documentation) |
| description | One text file for each Prime Minister containing the aggregated contents of all the XML transcript files identified as speeches in the file metadata. |
| license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence |
| copyright | Commonwealth of Australia |
| date harvested | 2026-09-12 |
| number of files | 28,560 |
| format | directory |
| created by | Harvest transcripts (documentation) |
| description | The complete collection of XML-formatted transcript files downloaded from PM Transcripts. |
| license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence |
| copyright | Commonwealth of Australia |
| date harvested | 2026-09-12 |
| file size | 4.9 MB |
| format | text/csv |
| created by | Create an index to the harvested files (documentation) |
| number of rows | 28561 |
| description | A CSV file containing metadata extracted from the transcript XML files. |
| license | CC0 Public Domain Dedication |
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
id |
integer | transcript identifier |
title |
string | title of the transcript |
pm |
string | name of the Prime Minister |
date |
date | date the text was issued/created |
release_type |
string | type of transcript, eg: speech, interview, press release |
subjects |
string | subjects covered by the transcript |
pdf |
string | link to a PDF version (where available) |
Created by Tim Sherratt for the GLAM Workbench