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Snapshot of our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership 2.0

Contributing to Peace and Stability, at Home and in Our Region

Defence

  • Enhance the Australian Defence Force's access and deployments through Singapore.
  • Increase the Singapore Armed Force's access to Enhanced Training Facilities in Australia.
  • Deepen Defence Science and Technology Cooperation.
  • Strengthen cooperation in Defence Logistics and Supply Chains.
  • Expand professional Defence Exchanges and Collaboration.

Border, Security and Policing

  • Implement the 'Border of the Future' partnership on immigration, customs and coast guard.
  • Renewed MOU on combatting transnational crime and police cooperation.
  • MOU on police operational Science and Technology cooperation.
  • Implement MOU on Cooperation in Security Matters.
  • Expanded Security Dialogue.

Geostrategic, Capacity Building and Legal

  • Establish regularised track consultations and dialogues on conflict prevention efforts.
  • Track 1 Expert Level Talks on geostrategic, strategic communications and international legal issues.
  • MOU on a Third-Country Training Programme to jointly extend technical assistance to Southeast Asian countries.
  • Progress a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty.

Connecting our Economies

Economics, Trade and Investment

  • Establish cooperation on economic resilience through an MoU on Economic Resilience.
  • Establish the Australia-Singapore Economic Resilience Dialogue.
  • Work towards an arrangement on trade in essential supplies.
  • Increase two-way trade and investment aligned with Invested: Australia's Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040 and the Future Made in Australia plan.
  • Deepen cooperation on food security, including under our landmark bilateral Food Pact.
  • Continue implementation of the Digital Economy Agreement.
  • Strengthen food supply resilience, including through the Simplified Transshipment Model to encourage trade and distribution of Australian food products through Singapore to the wider region.

Regional and Multilateral Cooperation

  • Commit to WTO reform and support for the multilateral trading system.

Connectivity

  • Continue discussions on maritime supply chains.
  • Reviewing the bilateral Air Services Agreement.

Transitioning To Net-Zero

  • Hold a Ministerial Dialogue on Energy.
  • Deepen collaboration under the Green Economy Agreement with new and refreshed initiatives.
  • Implement the Green and Digital Shipping Corridor.
  • Enhanced collaboration to support the ASEAN Power Grid.
  • Enhanced cooperation on batteries and low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia certification schemes.
  • Share information on battery technologies.
  • Accelerate the region's energy transition through Singapore's Financing Asia's Transition Partnership (FAST-P).
  • Promote bilateral partnerships between businesses to drive trade and commerce in green industry sectors.
  • Develop standards and frameworks to inform nature finance and markets in the region.
  • Work towards a legally binding bilateral instrument for the cross-border movement of carbon dioxide for offshore geological sequestration.
  • Launch the bilateral Cross-Border Electricity Trade Framework.

Forging New Frontiers

  • Establish the Australia-Singapore Partnership on Innovation and Research (ASPIRE).
  • Establish a Cyber and Digital Senior Officials' Dialogue.
  • Renew the Cyber MOU.
  • Implement the Artificial Intelligence MOU.
  • Uplift research partnerships, to foster bilateral research and development through collaboration between universities.
  • Continued engagement on health, including deepening cooperation through the Health Policy Dialogue on topics of mutual interest such as digital health and ageing.
  • Establish a regular senior officials Space Dialogue to deepen space cooperation and expand collaboration between our space sectors.

Deepening Friendships and Capabilities

  • Institute regular education policy dialogue at the Ministerial level.
  • Expand cooperation in sustainability education, student well-being, teacher exchanges, continuing education and training, and tertiary partnerships.
  • Explore discussions on transnational education.
  • Explore a regular roundtable to facilitate more regular exchanges between our universities.
  • Establish Australia Awards scholarships for Singaporean postgraduate students in areas of mutual interest.
  • Enhance collaboration in public administration under the renewed MoU on Cooperation between the Australian Public Service Commission and the Singapore Public Service Division.
  • Enhance collaboration in culture and the arts, including through the Australia-Singapore Arts Group.
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