{"id":25446,"date":"2024-02-29T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=25446"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T09:47:12","slug":"realising-australias-strategic-partnership-with-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/realising-australias-strategic-partnership-with-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Realising Australia\u2019s strategic partnership with the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Albanese and President of the Republic of the Philippines HE Ferdinand R Marcos Jnr reaffirmed the strong relationship Australia and the Philippines share during the President\u2019s first official visit to Australia this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Marcos\u2019 address to a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament highlighted the close cooperation between Australia and the Philippines under our upgraded Strategic Partnership, signed by Leaders last year, and our shared commitment to an open, resilient and prosperous region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders\u2019 announced the following new Memoranda of Understanding to implement key priorities of our Strategic Partnership, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Enhanced Maritime Cooperation to strengthen our existing civil and defence maritime commitments;<\/li><li>Cyber and critical technology to harden our resilience against cyber attacks and encourage cooperation on the digital economy; and<\/li><li>Cooperation between our national competition commissions to enhance effective competition law and policy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister also announced a new $20 million investment to support the Philippines to reform, and improve access to, its justice system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next week the Prime Minister will welcome President Marcos and other Southeast Asian leaders to Melbourne to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Australia Dialogue at the Australia-ASEAN Special Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"prime-minister-anthony-albanese-said\">Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines is one of Australia\u2019s key partners in Southeast Asia \u2013 we share a vision for an open, stable and prosperous region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s historic address to the Australian Parliament articulated our shared vision for the region and for the thriving Australia-Philippines relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur nations have never been closer, and realising opportunities through our Strategic Partnership will bring great benefits to Australians and Filipinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI look forward to continued discussions with President Marcos at the ASEAN-Australia Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Albanese and President of the Republic of the Philippines HE Ferdinand R Marcos Jnr reaffirmed the strong relationship Australia and the Philippines share during the President\u2019s first official visit to Australia this week. President Marcos\u2019 address to a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament highlighted the close cooperation between Australia and the Philippines &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/realising-australias-strategic-partnership-with-the-philippines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Realising Australia\u2019s strategic partnership with the Philippines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25447,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446\/revisions\/25447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}