Royal Navy: The green berets and A Company of the 2nd Battalion carried out patrols before Chinooks and landing craft brought in waves of troops, armoured vehicles and artillery to shore for the main thrust inland, all with Australian Tiger attack helicopters in support overhead.

(Australia is) training with allies from the USA, Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, and New Zealand.

Interesting collection of allies

Talisman Sabre has been scaled back this year because of Covid-19 guidelines, with a maximum of 2,000 troops from outside Australia taking part in the exercises around the Shoalwater Bay Training Area and Townsville - around 150 miles south of where the marines have been training so far

That sounds a bit dumb. We're having the exercise due to the heightened threat of war with China which has resulted from the advent of Covid - but you're scaling back training due to Covid?

There is a Chinese spy ship just off the coast of Queensland monitoring the exercises - not surprisingly.