Concerned about China's growing influence in the Pacific, during the past ten days Australia's Foreign Affairs minister has been to Japan, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and is presently in Indonesia speaking on Australian policy in Indonesian. Those are her first ten days in the job.
I think Mahuta didn't leave the country until she'd been Foreign Affairs minister for over a year.
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Mahuta’s appointment as foreign minister after the Labour Party won the October 2020 election was a surprise to many. She has no experience in foreign policy
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