 Well welcome everyone and can I start by welcoming Secretary Cameron, Secretary Shaps, of course Minister Wong, what has been an incredibly productive Auckland meeting in Adelaide today. Britain is our oldest friend, it is our oldest relationship and we have long had strong people to people ties, strong cultural relationships but what is emerging now is a strategic and security dimension to this relationship and as we have spent the day talking we have all reflected on how close our reflexes and our instincts are around a range of matters and how much intent there is on the part of all four of us to see a greater degree of action between our two countries on top of what is already a very very solid base of activity. Over the last two days we have announced the establishment of a Defence and Security Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia which is a status of forces agreement which contained within it a commitment to consult with each other where there are contingencies which engage our sovereignty and our national security. In some respects it is a surprise that a status of forces agreement has not been in place before now but it speaks to the degree to which we are now seeing a much greater activity and interaction between our two Defence forces, there is a much greater presence of the United Kingdom in the Indo-Pacific and as we look to the future with a visit by a carrier strike group in the next two years when we look to the littoral response group which we are seeing from the UK the presence of a status of forces agreement is practical and timely and we have spent much time over the last two days talking about ways in which we can cooperate more in relation to that increased activity and of course at the same time there are Australian Defence force men and women in the United Kingdom who are training the Ukrainian forces. So this is an agreement which comes at a very important time in our relationship. This morning we were at Osborne where we announced the submarine strategic partnership which is the commercial arrangements that will see the building of nuclear powered submarines right here in Adelaide for the Royal Australian Navy and that is a joint venture that will occur between ASC and DAE. That announcement this morning again highlights the significance of AUKUS within our bilateral relationship and when you think about the fact that the most important defence capability that we operate now and will certainly operate in the future in terms of a long range capable submarine and in the future a long range capable nuclear powered submarine when you consider that that platform will be jointly operated by Australia and the United Kingdom it says everything about the security significance of the relationship between our two countries. Finally we are meeting at a time where we are watching Ukraine continue its fight against the appalling Russian aggression, the appalling unprovoked Russian invasion of its territory and as we meet today we are all very cognisant that now is a time for us all to be continuing our support of Ukraine to make sure that we stay the course so that Ukraine is able to resolve this conflict on its own terms. We have been proud to announce that Australia will participate in the drone coalition as part of our ongoing support for Ukraine and we really want to thank the leadership of Britain in terms of supporting Ukraine in its resistance against Russia and we really want to thank Britain for the way in which they have engaged with us in terms of our support for Ukraine. Today has been an extremely fruitful set of discussions we are really grateful to both David and Grant that they have made the trip to Australia we are very mindful that we are in the antipodes it is a long journey to come here but we very much appreciate the time you have taken out and we feel very encouraged by the future of our relationship based on our discussions today. Thank you very much and can I thank Richard and Penny for such a warm welcome to Australia it is great to be back I have not been to Adelaide before and it is a stunning place to be so thank you for that. Three reflections from me first of all as Richard said this is a very strong partnership but it has just got so much stronger in recent years there were always the connections of history and language and culture and of course our sporting ties and I am looking forward to my first ever Aussie rules football game tonight I am watching it not playing it just to be clear but what we have added to that in recent years is our trade deal is our joint participation in the CP TPP and of course AUKUS which is just such an important development for both our countries in terms of both manufacturing and security and cooperation. The second point is I think the discussions we have had don't just show that we share analysis or that we share values we share both those things but I also say we share a pretty concrete and clear plan of action that we are going to support Ukraine as you have just said in its vital fight in resisting Russian aggression that we are going to work together as we try to stabilize them at least as we try to get aid into Gaza and try to bring about a solution to that conflict that we are going to work together in helping small island states particularly with green finance and that we are both going to be enhancing our presence in this region as we seek the economic prosperity and stability and security that we know we all need. Third point is the action for the year ahead I think perhaps particularly focusing on the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa where we are not just thinking about how we try and make sure that is a successful Heads of Government meeting but also the agendas that we can pursue helping Commonwealth colleagues with the challenges that they face working together in the G20 to enhance the status and lending and ability of the multinational development banks as they help to finance the sustainable development goals working together as we fight the rollback of rights that tragically is happening in our world whether it is women's sexual reproductive and health rights or gay rights or other rights the rollback that is taking place as two like minded countries we should be fighting back against that rollback of rights but above all in the dangerous and uncertain and difficult world that we live in today above all focusing on our mutual security it is a time where friends and partners need to work even more closely together in the alliances we have and that is certainly the case with Britain or Australia and that's only become clearer in these talks over the last two days thank you thank you very much can I first say to my colleagues Richard but critically David and Grant thank you so much for coming to Adelaide we are so pleased to welcome you to our beautiful city for for Auckland the United Kingdom is our valued partner globally and in our region and I would emphasize this is a partnership which is a modern partnership fit for the times fit for the challenges of today and the future and today and yesterday were an opportunity to discuss better how we can work together to support each other and the region a region which is stable prosperous and peaceful a region in which sovereignty is respected where no one country dominates or is dominated we also talked about the way in which our world what happens in one part of our world affects us in another what happens in the Indo-Pacific reverberates in Europe what happens in Ukraine where we see Russia's illegal and immoral of an invasion of Ukraine and I do want to say to David and to Grant we commend the United Kingdom for its leadership on Ukraine we we are united in our unequivocal condemnation of Russia's actions as Richard said we are proud to support Operation Kudu and the training of Ukrainian personnel yesterday in Adelaide David and I discussed formalizing stronger cooperation when it comes to consular issues crisis issues and gender-based violence as he has spoken about today we discussed other matters including as as David said how we work together to enable particularly countries of the Pacific but small island developing states to access climate finance how we work together to ensure the multilateral development bodies respond better to the needs of developing countries and how we ensure that the the chog of meeting the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa a meeting of the Commonwealth in the Pacific such an important occasion is something we both work together to support to ensure that it is a success and of course we discussed Southeast Asia finally you will see from the statement when it is issued we also discussed the the situation in the Middle East we we know how many hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are starving I echo David's comments about the importance of increased humanitarian aid the need for that for Israel to allow that aid to enter the importance of fighting to cease to enable that aid to flow and we also spoke about how recognition could assist in giving momentum towards lasting peace in closing can I just say this this is a modern partnership it is a partnership which is being transformed to meet the challenges of our times and I am so grateful to our friends from the United Kingdom from Britain Great Britain for coming to Australia and for being so open and constructive in their discussions with us you are true friends and we look forward to many more years of this. Penny thanks very much indeed and it is indeed an honor to be here all those Richard says it is in fact a long way to come but as I've been commenting I've never really traveled so far to find so much in common at the other end yesterday we signed that landmark security and defence cooperation treaty it will help us do all sorts of things like facilitate the submarine visits between our staff that will deepen technical sharing it will help to commit to what we should be doing all along which is to consult with each other when our security is threatened in any way and we look forward to doing that and as you say it's just a surprise that that hasn't been in place sooner it codifies really what is the case and increasingly becoming true that Australia is one of our closest defence partners last night I had the honour of going to see the last post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial and I found it incredibly moving and poignant I know that next month when Anzac Day comes I'll be thinking of that but it also made me think about the price we'll pay for our freedom and nowhere is that more specific right now than in the war in Europe in Ukraine it's a long way away from here but I just want to stress the extent to which what happens there really matters in the rest of the world because if there is a despotic leader elsewhere an autocrat or somebody who just chooses to take over someone else's land and if the civilized world simply gives up loses focus has a form of attention deficit over two or three years then others will draw the conclusion that it's okay to take land it's all right because the civilized world will just forget about it and that is why I'm so incredibly grateful despite the distance that Australia has stepped up in this conflict the training of those Ukrainian troops in the UK what we call Operation Interplex and here is Kudu I think Kudu maybe is hugely welcome we've now trained overall since before the war over 60,000 Ukrainian troops but it hasn't stopped there when I last saw Richard we talked about the international fund for Ukraine there's $50 million that's been plowed into that fund and I can announce today that we're using slightly different currencies here 60 million pounds of the international fund for Ukraine to fund drones long-range drones and air defense drones as well which will be an important part of the desperate defense that is going on but not only that as you just heard Australia has joined the drones coalition which is a very important cutting-edge process of developing the kind of drones which I suspect will be very important later this year and already is in Ukraine but will increasingly be important not just in Ukraine but for our own defense industries and so by being part of the drones coalition the benefits will be felt directly back here with your own armed forces so just like with AUKUS the purpose of investing in that somewhat far away conflict is to help with defense and security back home and on that subject it was fantastic to join the others to visit the Osborne facility earlier today in fact very early today and see where the submarines will be built the SSM AUKUS and AUKUS is of course fundamentally about freedom of navigation it's about ensuring that the world's navy and oceans are capable of being sailed freely as they should be including here in the Indo-Pacific including in the South South China Sea what we're about is maintaining a global world-based order it's something we hold particularly dear which is why I'm slightly surprised to be going to an Australian footy match later where the world order of rules is something of a mystery to me and I'm looking forward to explaining them I'll be right there Rich thank you very much thank you very much so we'll go to questions Andrew you hear me there yes Andrew Green from the ABC my question is to the Foreign Minister and Foreign Secretary firstly Minister Wong we've seen concerns from your US colleague this week Kurt Campbell about the possibility of China trying to kill off Australian mining operations and it was something you discussed with your Chinese counterpart this week do you share concerns about what Beijing is doing there and Secretary Cameron an internal Whitehall assessment has reportedly advised ministers in your government that the government would be pausing consideration of sanctions against Chinese firms indefinitely around human rights concerns if that's the case how does that sit with your rhetoric about China I was asked a very similar question I think yesterday was at the day before so it was the day before in the press conference after my meeting with the Foreign Minister Wang Yi the Foreign Minister of China and the point I made there was the same point I made in the bilateral meeting which is Australia takes the view that we are all better off where there are transparent efficient and functioning global markets and whether it's on this issue or broadly that is the approach we take and I did express to him the concerns that have been raised by some Australian Nickel producers in this context in terms of your question I haven't seen the report to which you refer but let me just be clear Britain speaks very clearly to China about things we are concerned about whether that's about Hong Kong or about individual cases like Jimmy Lai or about human rights we always stand up for our values and speak very clearly we think that's perfectly consistent to do that while having a good working relationship or relationship based upon our principles of protect align and engage in terms of sanctions the only sanctions I can think of that we put in place recently have been sanctions to stop companies in other countries including in China supplying Putin's war machine and I just take this opportunity to make the point that Britain is doing that because we think it's important that Russia doesn't get hold of these so-called dual use goods and we urge other countries to take the same approach and recognize that if we're truly on Ukraine's side which we should be in there defending the country against this appalling aggression then we should make sure using sanctions appropriately to make sure that Russia can't feed its war machine and continue to prosecute this war. Manik. Manik Van Hayden, Sky News Australia my questions for Secretary Cameron do you believe that the election of Donald Trump in November would have an impact on the future of the AUKUS agreement? It's up to America who they choose as their president it's a very important principle in foreign policy not to involve yourself in other countries elections and what we will do as I'm sure an Australian government would do is work with whoever becomes the president we do it in the UK on the basis that we have a very special relationship with the United States based on cooperating over defense and security and intelligence in an incredibly close way what I would say is that whatever relationship we're talking about whatever part of the enterprise that we are involved in whether it is AUKUS which I think is an absolutely brilliant arrangement or whether it is NATO's arrangements the most successful defensive alliance in history all of those things I think whoever is president the best thing we can do is to get those alliances to get those projects into the best possible shape so whoever is the new president can see that they're working with a very successful set of arrangements. Can I add my voice to the comments of David I think that's exactly right and we feel confident given what we've seen particularly over the course of the last few months in Congress that the AUKUS arrangements really do enjoy support across the political spectrum in the United States and we move forward with complete confidence about what the future will hold. Paul. Hello Paul Starrick from the other advertiser a question for the foreign minister and the foreign secretary relating to a question asked of you this morning after today's announcements and talks what's your message to the critics who say that an Australian build of nuclear powered submarines either should not happen or will not happen. Well the first thing I'd say is I think it should happen remember these are nuclear powered but conventionally armed submarines and nuclear powered submarines clearly have capabilities in terms of distance and endurance that outmatch other submarines and I think it's vital technology Britain has been running these submarines for many years and they're extremely effective and we're looking forward to investing in the new generation of the AUKUS submarines in terms of our confidence I think going to Osborne this morning and seeing both the ASC but also BAES a company we know well seeing what they're doing to prepare for this I think was very heartening and you know Australia is one of the most capable countries in the world when it comes to delivering big projects and this is a big project and we know that from our own experience and we're going to be working very hard to make sure we deliver it properly at Barrow Inferness and elsewhere and Derby in the UK and I know that our colleagues in Australia were doing the same thing it's a huge project a huge undertaking but absolutely essential for our for our security and I think so exciting for Britain America and Australia to be working together on this project but I have total confidence well in response to your question first it should happen and David has spoken about why and we've had a lot of discussions including in the public context about the strategic imperative of why it happens it is good not just for Australia but for Britain and for the United States and it is good for stability in our region and we have to we will make sure it does happen and we do that understanding the scale of the enterprise the scale of the task but I have great confidence that not not just the AUKUS partners but also the state government the workforce the people of Australia and South Australia understand just how big a project this is and how transformative it is for our economy for our industrial base and for our strategic circumstances so you know it's a it's a whole of country whole of stake endeavor here in South Australia and across the country and it is a shared endeavor across the AUKUS partners and we all we all know what we gain from it Laura Laura and Rose from Seven News my question is to the deputy prime minister also about the sub steel how appropriate is our almost five billion dollar commitment to the UK in the midst of the cost of living crisis well the it's completely appropriate and it's consistent with what we announced last year in terms of the contributions that we will make to industrial uplift in both the United Kingdom and the United States let's not forget that the most significant industrial uplift that we will be doing and that we are spending may on is right here in Australia and in fact right here in South Australia indeed we expect to spend about 30 billion dollars through to the mid 2050s in terms of building our industrial base in this country and a very significant proportion of that will be happening right here in Adelaide but we have said from the outset that in terms of the submarines that we build here in Adelaide we will not be making the nuclear reactors themselves they will be made at the Rolls Royce facility in Derby which I visited with Grant last November obviously the production rate of that facility needs to increase in terms of making nuclear reactors both for the Royal Navy but also for our nuclear powered submarines and so in that context it's completely appropriate that we are making a contribution to that and what I can tell you is that having visited it in November that that facility is already already readying itself for the build of the Australian reactors indeed Grant and I watched or looked at paths that had been already made which will be on that very first submarine that rolls off the production line here in the early 2040s so we're really happy with the relationship that we've got with the United Kingdom with the arrangements that we've reached it does involve the contribution to the industrial uplift in the UK that's entirely appropriate and what it will do is facilitate this capability coming into service into our Navy at the earliest possible date and with that can I thank you all for attending thank Grant and David again for coming to Auckland of course thank Penny for all her efforts as well and we will see you again soon