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Penny Wong says Australia has ‘more work to do’ forging relationships in the Pacific
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, is in Fiji today amid a meeting with her counterparts from across the Pacific.
We’ve got work more work to do. We’ve announced that we do want to engage with and negotiate with both Tonga and Solomon Islands. Obviously, there’ll be a lot of work there that we want to do with them in partnership.
It was a test which was destabilising and in a region where leaders have said we want an ocean of peace. It’s really important that partners respect that, and we would continue to encourage that respect.
