Australia to Deploy Forces to Gulf Strait

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash during a press conference after a BBQ Breakfast at a residential building site in Googong, Canberra, on April 4, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Australia is joining an international military campaign to help guard oil tankers from attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Australian Defence Force will contribute troops, a surveillance plane and Navy frigate to a United States-led effort to protect sea lanes from Iranian interference.