Around 30 students protested outside the venue, smashing one window during the melee. Police took away one protester who attempted to ride his motorcycle up to the University House.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop used her address at the Crawford Australian Leadership Forum to reiterate's Australia's foreign aid focus on the Asia Pacific, adding that the government is also working towards realising the dream of an Asia-Pacific trade zone.
She also defended the Abbott government's decision to "embrace Fiji" and remove sanctions against Fijian diplomats visiting Australia.
"My view of the sanctions is if they haven't worked in the first two years, they're probably not going to work. And in a situation such as Fiji, I suggest we should have been more creative.
"...So through encouragement, through working more closely with Fiji we have seen the return to the path to democracy."
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