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Australia has today agreed a Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership with the United Kingdom that will help shape a positive technology environment and maintain an internet that is open, free, peaceful and secure.

China has requested the establishment of a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to hear China's claims regarding Australia's anti-dumping and countervailing measures on stainless steel sinks, railway wheels and wind towers.

Tonga has agreed to Australia’s offer of a surveillance flight, to assess the damage caused by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano and the subsequent tsunami.

Viet Nam and Australia held their 17th Annual Human Rights Dialogue on 8 December 2021 by videoconference. The discussion was productive, frank and covered an extensive range of issues.

Australia implements UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution 2615 of 22 December establishing a humanitarian exemption to the UNSC sanctions regime in relation to the Taliban.

Today the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) comes into force, giving Australian farmers and businesses access to the world's largest free trade agreement.

We deplore the decisions by two Russian courts to forcibly close International Memorial and the Memorial Human Rights Center. For more than three decades, Memorial has fulfilled a unique role in documenting historical crimes and recovering for posterity the memory of the tens of millions of victims of political repression in the country.

The Morrison Government is helping Australian made ice cream reach taste buds around the world, with record exports worth $46 million in 2020-21.