[42] Brock did back Labor, giving Labor 24 seats and as a result Weatherill formed a minority government giving Labor a total four terms in government. [58][59] Wong is the first Asian Australian and the first openly LGBTI person to hold the office of Australian Foreign Minister. Many people have urged her to consider it over the years, including some of her closest allies and friends. But Ms Wong criticised Manus and Nauru, saying it was never envisaged that those facilities should become centres of indefinite detention. Kevin Rudd AC @AmboRudd. That this mattered is evident from the opening sentence: Penny Wong did not want this book to be written. Simons, a journalist, biographer, and associate professor at Monash University, uses her preface to complain about how difficult it was researching the book without Wongs assistance and against her will. Qanda effect or actually more likeable, Ms Wong backed her fellow Labor politician and university boyfriend, adding: I think Jay made the right point.. This is an important revelation, as it might be the first and last recorded example of squeamishness in Penny Wong. The Royal Commission report urged South Australia to pursue a waste storage facility, claiming South Australia has the "attributes and capabilities to manage and dispose of international used nuclear fuel safely". Their relationship began while Wong was at university and Weatherill was an industrial officer for the Australian Workers Union. In this extract from her biography of Penny Wong, Margaret Simons considers the question everyone has been asking her. Campbell Newman. [44] Former Liberal Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith then defected, becoming an independent and entered the Weatherill cabinet. I remember always thinking that he had five-year plans and seven-year plans, and I just did the next thing, and then the next. The state's finance minister, Michael O'Brien, has announced he will stand down from his seat of Napier at the upcoming election, to make way for Senator Farrell. She and fellow campaigners Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek positively contrast with the cynical and self-interested calculus of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard on the issue. revolt lead by the Left faction's Anthony Albanese ended with Senator Farrell surrendering his number one position to Penny Wong. Weatherill announced his intention to retire from Parliament on 6 December 2018. [82] In July 2019, he was appointed to conduct a review of Federal Labor's loss at the 2019 Australian federal election. That remains her vocation. It drains her. One of the first things she published as an adult was the On Dit article in which she argued that professional political representation was the most important service. Penelope Ying-Yen Wong (Chinese: , born 5 November 1968) is an Australian politician who is currently serving as the minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese Government since 2022. This is simply a question of respect. First was her seven-year-relationship with Dascia Bennett, in which she was stepmother to Dascia's two children, and which ended shortly after Wong's election to the Senate. A plebiscite is all about the internal politics of the Liberal Party, not about delivering marriage equality, she went on. If a comrade was spending long hours campaigning, Wong might arrange for a set of course notes to materialise in that person's pigeonhole, just so they didn't get too behind. Mr Wortley and his lower house colleague, wife Dana, are polarising figure within Labor who have switched from the Left to Right factions. #samesexmarriage #qanda, Jay Weatherill said it as it is, pass the legislation now. 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