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Is Australia a member of NATO?

The leaders of Japan, South Korea, and Australia and New Zealand, far beyond the military alliance's normal geographic reach, were invited to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit held in Madrid the last week of June.
The participation of the four U.S.-allied countries for the first time and their agreement with NATO on cooperation in cyber defense and maritime security confirms the countries' wariness of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the rise of China's increasingly coercive behavior.
Australia began cooperating with NATO in 2005, and the alliance was established in February 2013 through the Cooperation Plan.
Australia is not a member of NATO, but has deployed military units to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which NATO member countries have participated, and has cooperated with NATO forces. cooperating with NATO forces.

Is Australia a part of NATO?  It is actually not but the country has a very close relationship with NATO and have been cooperating.