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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong meets with Henry Puna, the secretary general of the Pacific Island Forum in Suva, Fiji on May 26, 2022. Pita Simpson/Getty Images

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has spruiked a “new era” of engagement with the Pacific in a speech to the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji.

Wong, fresh from a trip to Tokyo for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is visiting the South Pacific amid Beijing’s overt push for influence in the region.