Age of the Dragon

What Peter Dutton and Marise Payne need to use AUSMIN talks to tell Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken

Bradley Perrett
Updated September 10 2021 - 5:53pm, first published 6:00am
F/A-18F Super Hornets sit ready as the sun sets at RAAF Base Darwin. Australia should upgrade its air bases to allow further co-operation with US forces. Picture: Department of Defence
F/A-18F Super Hornets sit ready as the sun sets at RAAF Base Darwin. Australia should upgrade its air bases to allow further co-operation with US forces. Picture: Department of Defence

In the annual AUSMIN talks with their US counterparts next week, Defence Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne should make more offers than requests. The US needs help, and it's in our interest to make help available.

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Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett is a regular ACM columnist with a focus on Australia's relationship with China, covering defence, strategy, trade, economics and domestic policy. He was based in Beijing as a journalist from 2004 to 2020.

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