Senator Wong, the nation’s first-ever Minister for Climate Change and Water, has long applied an environmental focus to her diplomacy.

Wong highlighted the need for “shared responses to shared challenges” in a “sharper and more competitive world”.

Speaking at a meeting with senior business leaders of the Australia-India CEO Forum, Senator Wong emphasised the Forum’s role in fostering trade and investment.

Senator Price claimed Labor’s immigration policy was “ultimately about power” and shaped by the voting preferences of migrant communities.

Senator Penny Wong said that the nation’s strength lies in its multiculturalism, with more than 300 ancestries represented and nearly half of Australians either born overseas or with a parent born overseas.

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"I have a job to do here in Washington, and that is to advocate for Australia’s interests, our security interests and our economic interests."

Senator Wong was elected to the Senate for the Australian Labor Party in 2001 and has been re-elected four times - in 2007, 2013, 2016 and 2022.