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Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has congratulated Donald Trump on his election on ABC Radio this morning. “We will obviously continue to work very closely with America as an old ally and a true friend,” she says. She’s talking about a recent meeting with Mike Pompeo, who’s set to work in Trump’s administration. It was a “very important engagement,” she says.
Asked about Trump’s foreshadowing of tariffs on all imports she says he “has run a campaign based on change,” she says, so it won’t come as a surprise. On former prime minister Kevin Rudd as Australia’s ambassador to the US, she says he has been “highly effective with both Republicans and Democrats”: So we’re confident that Mr Rudd will continue to do an excellent job in engaging with the new administration. On Aukus, she says Australia is buying submarines as a deterrence “to enable peace”.
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