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AUKUS Defense Ministers Meeting Joint Statement

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosted the Honourable Richard Marles MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Australia, and the Right Honourable Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at the Defense Innovation Unit Headquarters in California today to…

Television Interview, ABC Afternoon Briefing

SUBJECTS: NZYQ High Court case; Unsafe and unprofessional interaction with PLA-N; Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill; AUKUS Defence Ministers’ Meeting. GREG JENNETT, HOST: Richard Marles, it's good to have you on the program and I guess this might be for the last time this year. Now, you'll…

Visit to the United States for the second AUKUS Defence Ministers' Meeting

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP, will travel to the United States for the second AUKUS Defence Ministers’ Meeting in California, this week. The Deputy Prime Minister will join US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J., Austin III, and UK Secretary of State for…

New legislation to unlock billions of dollars for AUKUS industry partners

The Albanese Government will unlock billions of dollars in investment and cut red tape for Australian Defence industry and our AUKUS partners, with the introduction of the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023. Under the legislation introduced today, Australia’s existing trade controls will…

Launch of Defence family and domestic violence prevention and response strategy

Today we’re releasing the Defence Strategy for Preventing and Responding to Family and Domestic Violence 2023–2028. Family and domestic violence is incompatible with Defence’s values and behaviours of service, courage, respect, integrity and excellence, and to include and value others. Australian…

Additional university places to grow Australia's AUKUS workforce

Thousands more students will train at 16 Australian universities through the allocation of an additional 4,001 Commonwealth supported places in STEM courses to help grow the skilled workforce required to deliver the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway. The Albanese Government is investing $128…

National Press Club Address, Canberra

SUBJECTS: AUKUS agreement and acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines; defence budget, infrastructure, Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty, government portfolios, export control legislation, nuclear power, submarines, bipartisan US support for AUKUS, Pacific Island workers. SPEAKER: Today at…

Address to the National Press Club

Acknowledgements I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the land we meet on and recognise any other people or families with connection to the lands of the ACT and region. As Minister for Defence Industry, I also pay my respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men…

Joint Statement - Philippines-Australia Maritime Cooperative Activity

Australia and the Philippines are close friends and strategic partners. In September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President of the Philippines HE Ferdinand R Marcos Jr signed a Strategic Partnership between our two countries, which establishes an enduring framework for closer cooperation.…

Announcement of continuous naval shipbuilding at Henderson, WA

JOSH WILSON: Okay. [Indistinct]. Good morning. It’s great to be here in the federal electorate of Fremantle in the City of Cockburn in Henderson at the Australian Marine Complex at Austal. It’s brilliant to have with me my friend and colleague Pat Conroy, the Minister for Defence Industry, and Paul…

Securing continuous Naval Shipbuilding at Henderson Shipyard in Western Australia

The Albanese Government is securing Australia’s shipbuilding capability and investing in Western Australian defence industry through a new strategic partnership between Defence and Austal Limited at Henderson Shipyard. The Defence Strategic Review observed that there was not enough work to sustain…

Guardian-class Patrol Boat delivered to Samoa

Today Samoa formally received the Guardian-class Patrol Boat, the Nafanua III, handed over by the Australian Government. The Nafanua III was officially received by the Hon Harry Jeffrey, Minister for Police and Prisons and Auapaau Logotino Filipo, Police Commissioner on behalf of the Samoan…