- Australian Government in its National Defense Strategy (NDS) 2024 identified India as ‘top-tier security partner’ in the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR).
- NDS also highlighted that Australia will continue to seek opportunities with India to drive practical bilateral and multilateral cooperation, defense industry cooperation and information sharing.
- India-Australia Security Partnership in IPR
- Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad): Both the countries, along with Japan and the US, are actively cooperating in Quad to tackle urgent challenges in the IPR.
- Bilateral cooperation: Both countries upgraded their bilateral ties to the level of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) in 2020.
- Joint Declaration on a shared vision for Maritime Cooperation in Indo-Pacific (2020) emphasized on promoting peace, security, stability, and prosperity in the IPR.
- Defense cooperation: Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement and Defense Science and Technology Implementing Arrangement provide a framework to deepen defense cooperation.
- AUSTRAHIND is a joint military exercise between two countries.
- Significance of India-Australia Partnership in IPR: Shared interest in maintaining a rules-based order, freedom of navigation, and respect for international laws, collaboration in emerging technologies and critical minerals, securing regional balance of power in the backdrop of Chinese aggression, etc.
Other aspects of India-Australia ties
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