CANBERRA, ACT, March 5 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA:Thank you very much for joining us. And it is wonderful to have welcomed my friend, Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada to Australia. And to be able to reciprocate the generous hospitality that I received at last year's G7 Summit. Canada is one of Australia's closest and long standing partners. And today in our bilateral we've discussed the Indo-Pacific, developments in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine, cooperation in economic security, the critical importance of the clean energy transition as well as defence cooperation. With the international system under increasing pressure, we want to work...