Journey to the United States and United Kingdom

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, will journey to the United States and the United Kingdom this week for a sequence of high-level conferences.

Australia and the United States are the strongest of allies, with a shared imaginative and prescient for peace and safety within the Indo-Pacific, shut financial connections and deep private ties. 

This go to might be a chance to advance the connection between our two nations and is available in the identical week Australia and the United States mark the 75^th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty.  

In Washington DC, the Deputy Prime Minister will meet senior members of the Administration, and focus on progress on key defence priorities, akin to AUKUS, Force Posture initiatives and collaboration between our two industrial bases. 

The Deputy Prime Minister may even go to San Francisco to satisfy with main expertise firms and promote Australia as a associate of selection for funding in sustainable AI infrastructure and trusted, inclusive, and safe AI innovation.

Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy, Andrew Charlton, will be part of these engagements in San Francisco. 

In the United Kingdom, the Deputy Prime Minister will meet with the brand new Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP. This might be their first in‑individual assembly since Secretary Streeting’s latest appointment and might be a chance to proceed our shut cooperation on the supply of AUKUS and focus on our shared imaginative and prescient for peace and safety. 

Quotes attributable to Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles:

“AUKUS is full steam forward and we working carefully with the US and UK on the following steps in the direction of delivering this historic endeavour.

“On the seventy fifth anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty between Australia and the US we have a good time the enduring basis of belief, cooperation, and shared goal that underpins our Alliance at this time.

“I look forward to meeting the new Secretary of State for Defence, Wes Streeting, in London to progress work on AUKUS and further our cooperation across defence industry and regional security.”