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In moving forward, the government should be careful not to treat all relations within the security context that has dominated foreign relations so far.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the fringe of the Labor Party\u2019s annual conference in December 2018, then shadow defence minister Richard Marles turned to his colleague Penny Wong and implored her to \u201cfall in love.\u201d Not with him, but with the Pacific. As an unashamed Pacific tragic, Marles stressed that to build deep-seated and long-lasting relationships with the near neighbourhood, Australia and Australians needed to fall in love with the region. 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