India, July 6 -- In 2009, India and Australiasigned a strategic partnership to strengthen political and security relations, but few could havepredicted the meteoric rise of the relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP). A significant shiftoccurred in the June 2020 virtual summit between Prime Minister (PM), Narendra Modi and the then-Australian PM Scott Morrison, where the two agreed to elevate the strategic pPartnership to a CSP, building on a decade-old bilateral strategic engagement. With $ 50 billion in two-way trade, Australian universities opening campuses in India, and a million-strong Indian diaspora strengthening people-to-people ties, the tripling of direct flights between India and Australia since 2022, and a ...