Marise Payne and Linda Reynolds land in US for crucial AUSMIN talks

Ms Payne, Ms Reynolds and the seven other members of the downsized delegation will have to quarantine for 14 days when they return to Australia.

China and its aggressive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific, including disinformation campaigns, militarised island building and territorial claims in the South China Sea and security crackdowns in Hong Kong, are expected to be high on the agenda when the ministers meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

Ms Payne will have dinner with Mr Pompeo at the State Department on Monday evening and the AUSMIN talks will be held on Tuesday . "Discussions at AUSMIN 2020 will centre on our shared efforts towards a stable, resilient, open, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific, particularly in the context of the impact of COVID-19," Ms Payne and Ms Reynolds said in a joint statement.

"We will focus on how both our nations can best work together to respond to immense health, economic and security challenges."

What a pure waste of tax payer $ not to mention how unhealthy these 2 are so if they do catch the virus I don’t much like their chances. What utter stupidity knowing they could’ve done all this by secure teleconferencing. Show boating for a corrupt president. LNP Trumps bitch

They will definitely need their PPE if they visit POTUS at the WhiteHouse… 🥴👻

the white house is a contaminated zone,

when they come back please quarantine them in hotels and send them the hotel bills because as a taxpayer I will not pay for an unnecessary trip when people are ignorant of apps like zoom or skype or google meet.

The US is safer than Canberra! Is this the message? Is this why we can’t have Parliament? COVID19Aus

Such news, many wow.

US T wins election and tries to crush any opposition and ongoing opposition, T loses and refuses to accept result and faces courts and opposition drummed! : bloodshed or civil war! OR IS HE PREPARING THE STAGE FOR A WAR OR GRAND CONFLICT ON THE WORLD STAGE BEFORE NOVEMBER?!

They weren’t wearing masks in the pics this morning

What a bullshit! This sycophantic & costly photo op lap dog junket could have been held via a 50 cent video link?

Pictures this morning don’t look like social distancing or masks are happening.

Why couldn’t they all wear masks so Parliament can sit..AlboMP ScottMorrisonMP

Why are they there? How much will it cost me?

The defacto Burka.

And then Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum took them off, shook hands with everyone & no social distancing... Job well done... They can have a mass gathering in a virus hotspot, but Liberals can't sit in Parliament..... Hypocrites much ScottMorrisonMP?

No gloves

I trust they will go into quarantine on their return?

Too dangerous to attend parliament but knocked people over in their rush to get their fat rorting arses on a free trip to the fucking Rona hotspot of the world

Loved up couple on vacay 🌈

Some tips Ministers: 1) Take a list of 'Things important to everyday Australians' and validate any proposition against that 2) Anything Pompeo says, ask him to prove it 3) Be aware it is a defence contractors sales event, don't sign anything.

US most loyal puppy.

You know how literally everyone in the world has been safely doing business via video this whole pandemic? Yeah that.

In other news, I wore a mask when I went to buy condoms yesterday.

Waste of taxpayers’ money and this will frame Australia into an awkward and dangerous situation. there is no iolation 14 days in US? But don’t bring virus back, and we need 14 days isolation when they foy back.

Reminds me of the BBC TV comedy. TWO FAT LADIES. Travelling around on motorbike ( not Govt plane) and cooking up a storm. Pompeo will be like WMD Rumsfeld getting Australia on board for another' Coalition of the willing' fiasco..

2 ministers can travel to the US but parliament can't sit. Wake up Australia before it's too late. The libs are fascsists who are destroying the fabric and identify of Australia.

Who gives a fu^;:

Didn't realise Trumpism was that contagious.

Too dangerous to attend Parliament, but fine to fly to the US?

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