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A first combined Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministerial summit for New Zealand, across the Tasman.
Winston Peters and Judith Collins have top-level meetings with their Australian counterparts, Penny Wong and Richard Marles, in Government buildings in Melbourne.
ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says Winston Peters has a history of building international relationships and connections.
"New Zealand has to be involved internationally at the moment, because we are in a very strategic part of the world at the moment."Â
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