“India-Australia partnership is important at a time when the global order is being reshaped,” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Wednesday (August 27, 2025). She also said that Australia does not support tarriffs. She was speaking with a delegation of visiting Indian journalists at Canberra. She said that as a friend of India and the U.S., Australia would encourage dialogue, when asked about the current relations between India and the U.S. “What we would want as friends of both countries and as very obviously, we’re an alliance partner of the United States, is to say we share so much. We share not just history, but we do share very clear objectives about the attributes of the region in which we live. We always encourage dialogue, and we are strong supporters of the Quad.”
While answering a question by The Hindu on India–Australia bilateral relations, she said, “We are in a time where the global order is being reshaped, the regional order is being reshaped. And we have a responsibility to influence that reshaping, and we want to work with India, because we see a lot of convergence and alignment in the sort of outcomes we want from that reshaping. We see the attributes of the region that we want as being the shared objectives, so it’s a very important time for us to keep working together.”
