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The foreign minister, Penny Wong, is off to the United States this week for a meeting of Quad countries in Washington, DC.

Hosted by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the meeting is the second time this year the foreign ministers of the US, Australia, Japan and India have gathered.