Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has met with U2 frontman Bono to talk about poverty and aid.
A spokesman for Mr Rudd said the pair met at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday for about 45 minutes, along with Make History Poverty co-chairs Andrew Hewett and Tim Costello.
The rock star praised the government's development agenda, bipartisan support to reduce poverty globally and spoke about the challenge of global development and Australia's contribution, the spokesman said.
On Bono's agenda was an expansion of the Australian government's aid program and meeting Millennium Development goals set by the UN to reduce global poverty.
Mr Rudd praised Bono for his activism and the pair also spoke about developments in HIV globally, the spokesman said.
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