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India and Australia's Strategic Cooperation on Uranium, Clean Energy, and Defense

Thursday, July 9, 2026
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India and Australia's Strategic Cooperation on Uranium, Clean Energy, and Defense

India and Australia are talking about uranium. A big deal for India’s clean energy push, apparently. Prime Minister Modi announced Thursday that Australia is going to supply uranium after they wrapped up some key nuclear energy talks.

It all happened during a joint press conference in Melbourne with Australian PM Anthony Albanese. Modi hammered home the point: this nuclear aGreement gives New Delhi serious momentum for their clean energy goals.

“Australia will supply uranium to India,” he said. “We signed an important aGreement on nuclear energy. It’s going to give new push to our clean energy targets.” That was the core message.

Modi framed the relationship a bit broadly too. He called them both vibrant democracies, multicultural societies, and important ocean powers. Said they share a worldview that keeps strengthening their whole Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The third annual summit added something new to those ties, he mentioned.

Albanese confirmed the uranium side of things. He said there was an arrangement already in place part of that 2015 Nuclear Cooperation AGreement to let Australia export uranium to India for peaceful reasons. Standard stuff, but it’s the centerpiece.

But they didn't stop there. There’s more moving around. They also decided they need a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation AGreement, or CECA . Modi called it balanced, ambitious, mutually beneficial. And then the investment treaty part deepening economic links.

Then there were the big picture stuff. Work on critical minerals . That’s how they want to build resilient supply chains and support that clean energy shift. India-Australia are looking at a Critical Minerals Corridor for this. Defense too. They set up an India-Australia Defence Innovation Corridor, focusing on tech collaboration in defense.

They also dropped some joint declarations. Maritime security roadmap. A new partnership around cyber stuff, critical technologies, and those supply chains. It’s all layered now.

Albanese, on his side, painted a pretty positive picture too. He said India is one of Australia’s most important strategic partners. And that the relationship has never felt more consequential.

“We share a focus,” he said. “Deepening and diversifying this connection so we can grow from strength to strength.” Expanding things across defense, science, education, energy security, and those critical minerals. That’s what they are doing now.

They even touched on other areas. A trilateral technology partnership involving Australia, India, and Canada came up. And something about space Australia aGreed to set up a temporary tracking terminal on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It’s to help with India's Gaganyaan program.

So yeah. These aGreements all come together. Both sides are clearly pushing hard for cooperation in clean energy, minerals, defense, technology, and that whole Indo-Pacific security thing. They seem genuinely committed to keeping the region stable and prosperous. It feels like a massive push across several fronts at once.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

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