Arrived at airport to discover @Qantas had cancelled our international tickets home w/o informing or refunding us – forked out an extra $1.2k to get on the flight we already paid for. A truly unique business model to mess up & demand payment for your mistakes. #SpiritOfAustralia
You just popped the new Blink-182 CD in your mom’s car as she takes you to get the new Mario and Spider-Man games. You grab a pizza on the way home and your friends are coming to sleep over. Life is good. The year is 2023 and you are 34 years old.
Couldn't picture a better way to wrap up my time at the Australian Mission to ASEAN 🥰 A wild three years, and a historic period for #ASEAN-🇦🇺 relations.
In my address to our ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference, I said: we all want a region that safeguards our capacity to agree and disagree, preserves states’ agency, and protects their ability to decide their own destiny.
Australia supports ASEAN's central role in this ambition.
Honoured to meet with Singaporean Ambassador-At-Large Tommy Koh at @MFAsg 🇸🇬 this morning, along with @AusHCSG. Thank you, Excellency, for taking the time to chat #ASEAN, geostrategic issues in the #IndoPacific, and – of course – law of the sea.
In Vientiane today to co-chair the @ASEAN-Australia Forum and reaffirm Australia's enduring support for #ASEAN centrality and the ASEAN-led regional architecture. We're committed to working with ASEAN to build a peaceful and prosperous region.
China has nuclear powered submarines active in the Indo-Pacific.
China has *nuclear-armed* submarines active in the Indo-Pacific.
AUKUS is a partnership not a pact.
AUKUS is more than submarines.
There are women, POC & regional voices writing on the above. Amplify them.
It’s a law of nature that no matter where you land in Southeast Asia, there will always be a sign welcoming delegates to an ASEAN meeting you’ve never heard of. Hello Manila!
Had a good meeting with @AusAmbASEAN and Amelia Long with my colleague Joanne Lin discussing ASEAN. Was really good to meet again after 2.5 years of the pandemic. Thanks for the hospitality Amb!
“…Welcoming Australia's cooperation with #ASEAN in support of the concrete implementation of the @ASEAN Outlook on the #IndoPacific, with a view to contributing to peace, stability, and prosperity in the region.”
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At the 2️⃣nd Annual #ASEAN-Australia Summit, Leaders adopted a Joint Statement on the @ASEAN Outlook on the #IndoPacific 🤝 It commits us to enhance cooperation under the four key areas of the #AOIP – maritime, connectivity, SDGs, economic. Read here 👉https://t.co/GKmfUQ9kiN