Amid global tensions, Australia looks for regional friends
Penny Wong’s foreign policy is taking on an increasingly different tone from that of her Coalition predecessors, with low-key meetings to cement relationships with our closest neighbours.
Russia moves to annex large swaths of Ukraine, the British pound collapses, Europe confronts a freezing winter with limited gas supplies, Wall Street goes bipolar, and Chinese fighter jets buzz US naval ships in the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, a group of current and former Australian and Thai government officials, business executives and academics hold a two-day meeting in Canberra that, given the scale of rolling international crises, is pretty much ignored.
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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
