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Hon’ble Mr. Piyush Goyal, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Food and Consumer Affairs and Textiles, India and Hon’ble Dan Tehan MP, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Australia held a video conference on 21 December 2021 to expedite the bilateral Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) negotiations.

Australia will provide $5 million in emergency relief to help the people of the Philippines recover from the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Rai, known locally as Typhoon Odette.

Australian exporters are playing a key role in creating jobs and boosting Australia's economic recovery and will now benefit from an additional $80 million in funding for the Morrison Government's Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) program.

Today we are pleased to announce the appointments of the inaugural Director and Associate Director to the Pacific Fusion Centre.

The Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Magnitsky-style and Other Thematic Sanctions) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) came into force on 21 December 2021, following the Autonomous Sanctions Amendment (Magnitsky-style and Other Thematic Sanctions) Act 2021 commencing on 8 December 2021.

The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State, noting the outcome of the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong, express their grave concern over the erosion of democratic elements of the Special Administrative Region's electoral system.