now the pay-off for Iraq support :Aust/US training base at Shoalwater Bay

[the Kelly Gang]

Aust/US training base at Shoalwater Bay
July 8, 2004

THE Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland will be the main site for a joint US-Australian military training area, under a joint training deal agreed in Washington today.


Attending the annual Australia-United States ministerial talks (AUSMIN), Defence Minister Robert Hill announced the Australia Defence Force base had been slated for a further upgrade.
Senator Hill said other training areas, at Delamere and Bradshaw in the Northern Territory, also would be involved in joint training.


He said the Americans were keen on Shoalwater Bay because it already had hosted many joint training exercises.
"It is the most developed of our major training bases. It has been utilised and appreciated by the US in the past," he told ABC radio.


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