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Foreign Minister Penny Wong will blitz three key Pacific island nations in her first standalone trip after Labor's landslide re-election. The foreign minister will visit Vanuatu, Tonga and Fiji across...
The Prime Minister has denied Foreign Minister Penny Wong wants to resurrect the Voice to Parliament debate. Speaking on an episode of the Betoota Advocate podcast released on Monday, Ms Wong compared...
Federal ministers Malarndirri McCarthy and Penny Wong have defended the role of First Nations ambassador Justin Mohamed in the wake of attacks from the federal opposition, with Senator Wong saying Pet...
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says a "very substantial and serious" ministerial delegation to Papua New Guinea shows Australia is committed to engaging the Pacific region on climate change.
Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has acknowledged Australia has not been "as good a partner as we would have liked" to Pacific nations as she visited the Solomon Islands and met with new Prime Mini...
Penny Wong has become the second senior minister to make the trip to the Solomon Islands within weeks for talks with the country's new Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele.
Australia is guaranteeing Tuvalu's security under a new pact as it pledges more than $110 million in a development package. The memorandum of understanding was focused on sovereignty, Foreign Minister...
Penny Wong and opposition counterpart Simon Birmingham will travel to Tuvalu for talks on security and climate change. The foreign minister will lead the second bipartisan Pacific visit of the governm...
The Environmental Defenders Office are being scrutinised by Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek following critical assessments of the body's conduct in the Santos pipeline development dispute...
Thousands of Pacific islanders will be offered a path to Australian life after a government effort to boost regional employment and address shortages was given the green light.
Penny Wong has enlisted some celebrity power on the hustings as the foreign minister seeks to warm up support for an Indigenous voice to parliament.
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has launched an attack on the federal Greens after the party blocked the government's Housing Australia Future Fund bill in the senate.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has pledged to expand Australia's Pacific labour scheme, increase co-operation in critical mineral mining and adhere to the non-proliferation treaty as she wraps up her yea...