ABC News · Courtney Gould · Tuesday 14 April 2026
Australia will attend a 40-nation summit with the UK and France to discuss safeguarding shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — notably without the United States at the table.
Forty nations sitting down to discuss who guards the strait that keeps the lights on, and America's chair is empty. Three weeks ago Albanese addressed the nation about fuel reserves we don't have. Now Conroy's flying to a summit about the waterway we can't secure, with allies who can't secure it either, to discuss securing it without the country that used to. Talleyrand called this a coalition of the hoping.