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UK-Australia defence and trade talks: joint press conference; ENGLAND: Hampshire: Portsmouth: Spinnaker Tower:INTRichard Marles (Australia Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister) press conference SOT - Well, today we've had a very successful AUKMIN meeting. And on behalf of Penny and I, we really want to thank James and Ben for hosting us. But it's not just been the formal meeting today, In fact, really the time that we've spent together over the last two days has been really valuable and an absolute treat, culminating in a lunch just with the four of us aboard HMS Victory. And what's really struck me over the course of the last two days is the commonality of view amongst the four of us about the complexity of the challenges that we face in the world today, challenges to the global rules based order. In Eastern Europe, in the Indo-Pacific. There is a very high degree of alignment in the way in which we see the world, and we are thinking about it, and thinking of what we need to do as two nations working together. A sense of shared mission is really what characterises the way in which Australia and United Kingdom are going about its work and there was no better example of that and what all of us here witnessed yesterday when we saw our Defence Force personnel working together to train Ukrainian forces. And as we as we watched them do a drill about encountering a mind in the face of artillery fire, it was hard not to be struck by the idea that, as they were doing this drill now, in a very short period of time, what they were doing, they could easily be doing for real and the significance of that and the importance of the training that has been provided, the way in which that will save lives and contribute to the effort which will keep Ukraine in the fight so that they can determine the end of this conflict on its own terms, the seriousness of that was very present and, and the sense of working together was very clear. That in a larger sense is clearly hap...