Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

We have very strong bilateral relationships with Singapore already, and we are going to continue to progress that very long history. They are our most involved defence partner in South-East Asia. This is reflected in multiple defence dialogues, as well as bilateral exercises. These include Navy Exercise Singaroo, Army exercises Matilda and Dragonball, Air Force Exercise Churinga and joint Exercise Trident. We also participate in some extremely important and constructive multilateral exercises—particularly Exercise Pitch Black and currently, under the Five Power Defence Arrangements, exercises such as BERSAMA LIMA, which is literally underway as we speak—as well as our personnel exchange programs, education and training, and cooperative efforts in science and technology, capability and intelligence. We will continue to strongly support current Singaporean unilateral training in Australia as we progress to the arrangements under the CSP. In fact, Singapore's major annual unilateral training activity, Exercise Wallaby, is underway at Shoalwater Bay as we speak. (Time expired)