Australia's new Foreign Minister Penny Wong says they will listen because they care about what the Pacific has to say.

She says they want to help build a stronger Pacific family.

Wong adds they know that nothing is more central to the security and well being of the Pacific than climate change.

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She says they will be a generous, respectable and reliable member of the Pacific family.