Before flying to Tokyo, Wong recorded a message to Pacific nations, stressing the drastically different policies, agenda, and outlook of her new government, stressing in particular that Canberra will be sure to listen to, and then act on, Pacific needs. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, leader of the Australian Labor Party, and his foreign minister, Senator Penny Wong, on their second day in office, attended the scheduled Quad summit in Tokyo on May 24, where they met their U.S., Japanese, and Indian counterparts. Arguably, not since John Curtin became Australia’s prime minister in October 1941 – just weeks before the eruption of the Pacific War – has a new Australian government faced such immediate and urgent challenges. The first week of the new Australian Labor Government has already been one for the ages.
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