Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, will welcome New Zealand Minister of Defence, The Hon Judith Collins KC, to Australia today for a bilateral Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia and New Zealand are closer than ever, tightly bound by our shared history, deep people-to-people links, and alignment in our strategic, foreign and trade interests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Deputy Prime Minister will host Minister Collins in Sydney where they will discuss their shared commitment to modernise and strengthen the bilateral defence alliance between our two countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralia\u2019s security partnership with New Zealand was founded in the days of the first ANZACs and formalised through ANZUS. Today, that partnership is stronger than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur Trans-Tasman Alliance is seeing us train, integrate and operate more closely together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe look forward to continuing to work together to advance our collective interests, and contribute to the peace, stability and security of our shared region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, will welcome New Zealand Minister of Defence, The Hon Judith Collins KC, to Australia today for a bilateral Defence Ministers\u2019 Meeting. Australia and New Zealand are closer than ever, tightly bound by our shared history, deep people-to-people links, and alignment in our strategic, foreign and trade … Continue reading “Visit by New Zealand Minister of Defence”<\/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-35201","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\/35201","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=35201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35202,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions\/35202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}