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

The Australia-US relationship is built on shared democratic values. We have worked well with the Trump administration, further illustrated by our successful AUSMIN talks in July, and we will do so until inauguration day, on 20 January. We look forward to continuing that work with the administration of President-elect Biden.

This pandemic has wrought economic pain across our region. It has exacerbated strategic challenges that Australia and the US can help to address, together. Australia and the United States are cooperating in many areas, including on health security, on countering disinformation, on resilient supply chains, on open trade as we emerge from the pandemic and on supporting partners' economic recovery through targeted infrastructure development. We believe in a region in which human rights are respected, the seas and skies are open, and trade and commerce can flourish unimpeded.