Tribune’s note

Senator Wong's most consequential act on 14 May was tabling the Jakarta Treaty 2026 — the Australia-Indonesia Treaty on Common Security — in the Senate, marking what she described as the biggest advance in the bilateral relationship since the Soeharto-Keating security accord. In question time she ranged across housing, tax and energy, defending HAFF delivery milestones, the budget's asset-tax reforms, a domestic gas-reservation policy, and a dedicated fuel-security package against what she called the largest global energy shock the world has seen.

The domestic-resilience theme in question time and the regional-stability frame of the Jakarta Treaty together position the government's budget and foreign-policy agendas as mutually reinforcing responses to an unstable global environment. She also used a brief procedural statement to announce that Senator Tyrrell has joined the government benches.

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