Visit by Mr Lawrence Wong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore and the Hon. Anthony Albanese MP - Joint Media Conference
7 October 2025
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Special Events Australian Parliament
08:15 - 10:45
Speaker 6
Well, thanks for joining us. I'm absolutely delighted to host my friend, prime minister Lawrence Wong, on his first official visit to Australia as prime minister of Singapore. Although this is our first official meeting in Canberra, this is our fourth in person meeting since May last year. Singapore and Australia are close partners, but we are even closer friends. This year, as we celebrate sixty years of diplomatic relations and ten years of our comprehensive strategic partnership, we are deepening our relationship even further.
Today, prime minister Wong and I launched an upgraded comprehensive strategic partnership that takes our cooperation to the next level. The ambitious next phase of our evolving partnership will increase defense cooperation, expand our economic partnership, to help ensure supply chains remain resilient, support our action together on climate change, strengthen pandemic preparedness and research cooperation, cooperation, boost development on AI and emerging technologies, and furthering partnerships between our public service, universities, and art institutions. In addition to our upgraded partnership, ministers have signed memorandum of understanding across the board. There's a new enhanced defense cooperation agreement, economic resilience agreement, and as... And another, I'm working with
Our ASEAN partners. We also discussed the recent Optus emergency service outages. We had a constructive conversation. I thank very much prime minister Wong for his words of condolence for those who were impacted with their families. We spoke about Australia and Singapore's focus on ASEAN and its central role in this region.
I thank prime minister Wong for his commitment to this vision, and I thank Singapore for six decades of partnership. This has been a partnership between leaders, between nations, but most importantly, between peoples. And I now will hand to prime minister Wong before we take, questions from the media.
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