Australia and India Just Struck the Deal Noone Saw Coming
Twelve years after the civil nuclear pact was signed, Australian uranium can finally ship to India — alongside a defence declaration and a maritime roadmap agreed in Melbourne.
Melbourne just hosted a quiet revolution in the Indo-Pacific, and it deserved louder applause than it got. When Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi finalized an administrative arrangement to begin uranium exports and signed a sweeping new Joint Declaration on Defence and Security Cooperation, they didn’t just add two documents to a long list of bilateral agreements. They closed a decade-long gap between what Canberra and New Delhi have said about each other and what they’ve actually done.
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