Overview

• The ministers signed an agreement on information sharing, an implementing arrangement on mutual submarine rescue support, and terms of reference establishing Joint Staff Talks in Canberra.
• Both countries committed to hold a Defence Ministers’ Dialogue every year and progressed a Joint Maritime Security Collaboration roadmap.
• India offered maintenance, repair and overhaul for Royal Australian Navy ships at Indian shipyards during deployments in the Indian Ocean Region.
• A live KC-30A tanker demonstration refuelled an F-35 as the partners reviewed implementation of their 2024 air-to-air refuelling arrangement.
• Rajnath Singh met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong during a visit that marked the first by an Indian defence minister to Australia since 2013.