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Australia is pressing ahead with another security pact in the Pacific on the sidelines of a key regional leaders meeting. It's welcome progress for prime minister Albanese, after a separate agreement with Vanuatu hit a snare yesterday.

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00:00They might not have a treaty, but they're happy to share a ride.
00:07Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arriving in Solomon Islands with his Vanuatu counterparts.
00:14Keen to seize back momentum in Honiara
00:18and ramping up negotiations with Fiji on a security treaty.
00:23We are certainly up for that. I think we should get our officials working together.
00:28Another potential strand in a tapestry of agreements pursued by Canberra in the Pacific
00:34as China presses its advantage.
00:37The world around us is changing fast.
00:40And the Pacific must never be seen as an arena for others.
00:46And yet that's exactly what's happening.
00:49Both China and Australia fell over themselves to donate vehicles for this gathering,
00:54but it was a car handed over by Beijing that drove Anthony Albanese around.
00:59It's a car. You know, cars get you from A to B.
01:04And while China and other dialogue partners are absent from this gathering,
01:08Beijing still looms over it.
01:10Palau's president making an extraordinary intervention before getting to Honiara,
01:15saying that because of our location we're under constant threat.
01:19I might venture to say we are already at war.
01:22Ah, I'm not responding to.
01:24The Prime Minister was happy to join Pacific leaders on more comfortable terrain this evening,
01:29attending an event to ratify a new regional climate fund
01:33and confirming that Australia will pour in 100 million dollars.
01:38It's a considerable contribution,
01:40but Mr Albanese says Australia has an obligation to help.
01:45It matters that Australia turns up. It matters that we participate.
01:48And that requires more than just goodwill.
01:52The Prime Minister has a great privilege to stay here.
01:57Without a given opportunity to attend to to other people look there
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