Defence Minister Marise Payne has hinted the federal government could be interested in reviving a forum of some type between Australia, Japan, India, and the US.
Australia withdrew from a four-country security dialogue in 2008 under then prime minister Kevin Rudd, who feared the grouping would upset Beijing.
"Australia is very interested... what form that may take is a matter of discussion," Senator Payne told reporters in Tokyo on Thursday.
