Australia news live: Surge in EV demand and fuel diplomacy push sends trade surplus to nine-year low

Jump in imports narrowed Australia’s goods trade surplus to $1.1bn in June quarter. Follow today’s news live Penny Wong says Australia has ‘more work to do’ forging relationships in the Pacific The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, is in Fiji today amid a meeting with her counterparts from across the Pacific. We’ve got work more work to do. We’ve announced that we do want to engage with and negotiate with both Tonga and Solomon Islands. Obviously, there’ll be a lot of work there that we want