Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to talk about new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's first foreign trips - one to Tokyo for the Quad meeting and another to Indonesia.
What does this say about the importance he places on international relations?
And the new government has appointed an Assistant Minister for the Republic - putting the issue back on the agenda for the first time in two decades and upsetting monarchists in the process.
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