{"id":521436,"date":"2026-03-06T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521436\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:13:13","slug":"explaining-australia-joining-efforts-to-safeguard-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521436\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Australia joining efforts to &#8216;safeguard the Arctic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has Australia really signed up to \u201cundertake joint efforts to safeguard the Arctic\u201d, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/en\/news\/news-releases\/2026\/03\/05\/prime-minister-carney-elevates-partnership-australia-critical\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters at home<\/a> while touring Canberra and Sydney?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, Carney made it sound a bit more action-filled than how Australians would put it.\u00a0It certainly doesn\u2019t seem like Australia will put boots on the snowy ground of the Arctic anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Carney was referring to was Australia\u2019s commitment to sell Canada its unique version of what is known as an over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has Australia really signed up to \u201cundertake joint efforts to safeguard the Arctic\u201d, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18114,64,63,2065,3403,31866,44,84],"class_list":["post-521436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arctic","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-defence","tag-mark-carney","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}