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On Wednesday, 1 June, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong will travel to Samoa and Tonga, to renew and strengthen Australia's deep ties of friendship and family.

The fifth meeting of the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA) Joint Committee was convened virtually on 5 April 2022.

Today marks one year since Australian citizen, Dr Yang Jun, faced a closed trial in Beijing on national security charges. One year on, Dr Yang is yet to learn the outcome. The Australian Government is very concerned about this delay. 

Professor Anne Orford and Associate Professor Rain Liivoja have been appointed as DFAT’s Visiting Legal Fellows for 2022-2023.

On Thursday, 26 May, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong will travel to Fiji to strengthen our Vuvale partnership and to discuss how we can best secure our region and help build a stronger Pacific family.

On 24 May 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida hosted the fourth Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo. Leaders acknowledged progress the Quad had made, and announced further Quad initiatives on health security, climate change, maritime domain awareness, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, cyber, space and infrastructure.

On 23 May 2022, Australia joined the United States and 11 other partner countries in launching the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).

“We express our unwavering support for APEC and are fully committed to helping Thailand, as APEC Chair in 2022, deliver a successful host year.