Defense Writers Group
November 16, 2021
Moderator: Greetings and welcome to a Defense Writers Group special afternoon session. We have a really extraordinary guest today, the Australian Ambassador to the United States, the Honorable Arthur Sinodinos. Sir, thank you for joining us. It’s great to have you here at such an important time.
As always, this discussion is on the record but there will be no rebroadcast of audio or video. I’ll open with the first question as is our standard and then I’ll go around the room.
Mr. Ambassador, I was in the Pentagon just last week actually for meetings and as chance would have it I walked down the ANZUS Corridor, and I noticed that this is the 70th anniversary of the Australia-New Zealand-US Treaty founded on shared principles. It’s certainly stood the test of time.
But the news today is something very, very different. Not a treaty but an agreement among Australia the US and UK.
If you could, help us set the stage, sir. How did we get to this moment and where do we go from here in relations between and among our countries?
