Richard Marles: “It is important that those production and sustainment rates are improved.”

The shock and disruption from the high tariffs has been costly and destabilizing.

Reality is that there is no effective balance of power in this region absent the United States, but we cannot leave it to the United States alone.

We're working closely with the US to support Australia's national interests and national security, in areas such as defence and emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence.

We have spoken previously about Australia being able to provide strategic depth to Japan across a range of areas, but one of them is the use.