There’s no ‘set and forget’ when it comes to foreign policy for Australia

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong delivers an address at the Lowy Institute on foreign policy in the region. “One of them is trying to build different architecture for the relationships in our region, Pacific and Southeast Asia particularly,” Ms Wong said. “That is not the only thing you have to do; one of the points that I emphasise with people is we always have to make those agreements substantive. “There’s no set and forget, if there ever were, but there certainly is not now.”