POLITICO journalists focused on the Australia-India-Japan-United States Quadrilateral Dialogue spoke to Jane about Australia’s interests and aims for the group, as the US transitioned from Presidents Biden to Trump.

Australia has spent four decades building diplomatic mini-laterals in our region. Japan has been a steadfast and effective partner in our aims, particularly former PM Kishida.

For Indo-Pacific stability and security, there is no more important relationship than that between South Korea and Japan - and the United States forged a breakthrough pact which we hope will be sustained.

Though geographically far away, the world’s most comprehensive and powerful collective military treaty, NATO, remains fundamental to Australia's interests.

Australia’s Defence Minister stood in for the PM at a critical moment in NATO’s history, but Jane believes the PM himself should have been there.

North Korea is one of the world’s most impoverished and isolated nations - one with nuclear weapons - but its young leader has forged new and dangerous liaisons with old ally Russia.

In 2021 while servicing Australia’s head diplomat in Hawaii, Jane met with the US Defense Secretary at the INDOPACOM Change of Command and heard his groundbreaking ideas about integrated deterrence among allies.

On this special anniversary, Jane wrote of her conversations with the North Korean foreign minister in Pyongyang, and realised the magnitude of his misreading of the US response to the 9/11 terror attacks.