“The focus will be on national security, growth that works for working people, migration in an age of global movement, and building fair societies based on solidarity and reciprocity,” the organisers said.
As well as convening leaders from progressive governments, the event will hear from former prime ministers including Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand and Magdalena Andersson of Sweden.
Senior British ministers due to attend include Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Defence Secretary John Healey.
Albanese has strong contacts in the Labour Party after years of informal talks with leaders including Starmer, and his success at the May federal election is likely to hold lessons them when they have lost support in the polls under pressure from the Conservatives and Reform UK.
The welcome from the political left will contrast with the cooler response to Albanese from parts of the Trump administration, where officials want him to lift defence spending and have put the AUKUS submarine pact under review.
Trump used his address to the United Nations on Tuesday to dismiss climate change as a “con job” and warn leaders they were ruining their countries with high migration.
In a sharp contrast with the president, Albanese called climate change an “existential threat” in his address in New York and is seeking support to bring the UN’s annual climate summit to Australia and the Pacific Islands next year.
While Trump strongly criticised the UN and wants staff charged for a failure of an escalator when he was on his way to his address, Albanese is aligned with progressive leaders who back the global forum.
“If the United Nations steps back, we all lose ground,” he said in his address on Wednesday in New York.
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“If we give people reason to doubt the value of co-operation, then the risk of conflict becoming the default option grows.
“If we allow any nation to imagine itself outside the rules, or above them, then the sovereignty of every nation is eroded.”
Albanese is believed to be the first sitting Australian prime minister to speak at the Labour conference, which is a major event for the party and the scene of dozens of speaking sessions about progressive politics.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard addressed an event linked to the conference last year. There is a precedent for foreign leaders attending the event; after leaving office, former US President Bill Clinton spoke at the conference in Blackpool in 2002 and Manchester in 2006.
