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.