We have agreed to deepen the security aspects of our bilateral relationship, including our counter-terrorism cooperation and our shared efforts to deal with the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters.
We recognise the challenges we both face on national security, as demonstrated by the terrorist attacks in Sydney in December 2014 and in Paris in January 2015.
We acknowledge that ISIL, or Daesh, poses a significant threat to global security and to both our countries.
We reaffirm our commitment to working with our international coalition partners to disrupt, degrade and ultimately destroy it.
Our renewed efforts will focus on counter-terrorism and national security policy.
Building on the Security Cooperation elements of our Strategic Partnership of 2012, we have decided to:
- enhance our high-level dialogue on global security and terrorism;
- deepen our exchanges on national security policy, including responses to terrorism, countering violent extremism and on-line radicalisation;
- extend our dialogue on the challenges posed by the phenomenon of foreign fighters;
- further strengthen intelligence cooperation; and
- establish a program of exchanges in counter-terrorism policing, including on tactical response policing.
28 April 2015