Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has spruiked a “new era” of engagement with the Pacific in a speech to the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji.
Wong, fresh from a trip to Tokyo for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is visiting the South Pacific amid Beijing’s overt push for influence in the region.
The foreign minister said that the newly elected Albanese government would “listen” to the climate change concerns of Australia’s Pacific neighbours.
“We will listen. We will hear you—your ideas for how we can face our shared challenges and achieve our shared aspirations together,” she told attendees on May 26….