Aust may host US military training
By Graeme Dobell in Singapore
The United States is close to an agreement to build a major military training centre on Australian soil.
The US would spend tens of millions of dollars to upgrade one of Australia's existing training bases in Queensland or the Northern Territory.
Defence Minister Robert Hill says Australian and US forces would use the centre for air, sea and land exercises.
After talks with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Singapore, Senator Hill told the ABC the US and Australia could sign an in-principle agreement for the centre next month.
"It's to enhance mutual capability, ensure inter-operability and to assist a critically important ally," Senator Hill said.
He says an in-principle agreement could be signed at annual ministerial talks in Washington next month.
Senator Hill says the US would not pre-position equipment at the centre and it would not be termed a US base.
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