Australia's foreign minister has used a major speech in Canberra to celebrate the government's string of new security agreements, saying Labor has helped to build a region which is more stable and less deferential to authoritarian powers like Russia and China.

The government has been buoyed by multiple foreign policy victories this year.

It was crowned by last week's announcement that Australia and Indonesia had reached agreement on a potentially seismic new security treaty modelled on the 1995 pact struck by President Suharto and Paul Keating.

Penny Wong told the Australian Institute of International Affairs the new Indonesia agreement — along with the government's security and strategic pacts with Nauru, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea — were "landmark" achievements which proved Austral

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