CANBERRA, ACT, May 4 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

Australia and Japan have agreed to establish a new partnership that will enable deeper cooperation on complex cyber security challenges.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan met in Canberra today and issued the Australia-Japan Strategic Cyber Partnership.

Under the Partnership, Australia and Japan will strengthen our cyber relationship by collectively hardening our cyber defences, improving shared awareness and collaboration on cyber threats and critical technologies, and building the collective resilience of the Indo-Pacific through public-private partnerships.

Both countries will endeavour to c...