Source:Reuters Published: 2014-9-3 0:28:01
Australia is set to step up its partnership with NATO, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, as the country pursues a bigger role in global crises from Iraq and Syria to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has used a number of recent speeches to signal a more muscular approach to foreign policy. Although Australia is not a NATO member, its troops fought alongside the coalition in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called the basis for an expanded partnership in current and future conflicts.