The foreign minister has exploded out of the blocks since Labor won the election. Her aspiration is to be a serious person in serious times
China is currently engaged in high visibility courtship of the Indo-Pacific and Wong is countering with her own hearts and minds tour. Her predecessor Marise Payne was a serious and competent person but she wasn’t performative, either by temperament or design.
Wong’s open-ended pitch is intended to respect national differences as much as the commonalities. The question is also designed to prompt neighbours to look beyond their immediate material needs, and consider how they would like things to be in the next 10 or 20 years. So that’s the personal. When it comes to the political, Wong is a child of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating and the doctrine of Asian integration.
Albanese on Tuesday became the first Australian prime minister to visit the city of Makassar in the Sulawesi region. He wanted to go there both as a gesture to Widodo and as a nod to his own ambitions for the country he now leads.
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