ADF stop calling out China, page-40

Hardly a hostile encounter endangering lives:

Chief of Joint Operations Lieutenant General Greg Bilton told the ABC he deployed a P-8 surveillance aircraft on Thursday morning to make contact with the ship."

It located the AGI, we hailed the AGI, we got a courteous response as you'd expect in normal interactions in international waters," General Bilton told the ABC while observing Exercise Talisman Sabre activities.