His principles are visible in his support of gay rights, long before it was popular. [31] However, Australia's surging dollar hit the manufacturing industry sector in SA, and growth in indicators such as retail sales and house prices fell. Many people have urged her to consider it over the years, including some of her closest allies and friends. Wong rejects any view of herself and Keneally as rivals. 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She formed a deep alliance with the "Bolkus Left" - a sociable grouping of ambitious youngsters around the then senator Nick Bolkus, who was a mentor to Wong and whom she thanked in her maiden speech in 2002. IF HE was tenacious on the football field, he showed real talent on the tennis court. Though a major electoral redistribution in 2016 had seen four Labor seats become notionally Liberal, Labor retained a total of 19 seats at the election. I have mine. Labor releases review into its federal election loss under former . Ten days later, he took his own life. [9], Wong was born on 5 November 1968 in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, which had become part of the Federation of Malaysia five years earlier. I think she knows how to throw a political punch. Look, I think with the benefit of hindsight we probably got much more wound up in student politics than we really needed to, but isn't that what you do when you're young?". How long did Penny Wong and Jay Weatherill date? [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. Biography Penny Wong Margaret Simons Black Inc., . [3] She was also the first female openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian, and was an instrumental figure in the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017, reversing her previous endorsement of Labor Party policy that had opposed it. If you are prone to labels, Penny Wong may seem an unlikely star of a polity currently perceived as redneck, racist and regressingat a rate of knots. It is a health and medical research institute housing more than 700 researchers, and was the first stage of a new health and bio-medical precinct on North Terrace in Adelaide. [34] She also worked part-time for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), and won a position on the National Executive of the National Union of Students. This is an extract from Penny Wong: Passion and Principle, the biography by Margaret Simons. She was sworn in on 23 May 2022, only two days after the election and before final results were known, in order to attend a pre-scheduled meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue with newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. A close friend of late chef Jock Zonfrillo has revealed how devastating his death is to The Project panel. [28][44] She accompanied then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Bali for the international climate change talks. [37], In December 2013 Holden announced it would withdraw production from Australia. Conlon, Butler, Weatherill and Wong were the most promising of Bolkus' proteges, and all are still on the rise. 1 Jay Wetherill pictures. She was elected at the 2001 election, her term commencing on 1 July 2002. Updated: November 15, 2012 . Mr Wortley and his lower house colleague, wife Dana, are polarising figure within Labor who have switched from the Left to Right factions. On the other side, she fears what it would mean for her personally. Despite being from the right, Keneally backed Albanese to be leader, and he insisted on her promotion to the frontbench, making a colleague from the right, Ed Husic, stand aside to give way. On 18 March, the day after the election, Weatherill announced his decision to step down as Labor leader, but intended to remain in Parliament on the back-bench. The many surprises in the life of Penny Wong and why she'll never be PM. I have to concede, I backed the wrong horse. ", Wong remembers: "We had these big fights about who would control the Labor Club. Following the reshuffle in December 2006, she became responsible for the portfolios of Public Administration and Accountability, Corporate Governance and Responsibility, and Workforce Participation. This is simply a question of respect. Mar 31. Discover Jay Weatherill famous and rare quotes. 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. Since Francis was Chinese-Malay, the family faced discrimination in Malaysia, too: the constitution gave official preference to ethnic Malays in education and employment. The intention was for it to eventually form part of a national space agency. The two young Wongs moved from Malaysia to Adelaide with their mother when Penny was eight; their father remains overseas, though he and Penny keep in touch. Who is Penny Wong's first boyfriend Jay Weatherill? Along with Wong and Mark Butler, now another prominent Labor frontbencher, the trio became part of what was known as the 'Bolkus Left'. It is a model that bears replicating. Born in Malaysia to a Chinese Malaysian father and a British Australian mother, Wong was educated at Scotch College in Adelaide, before attending the University of Adelaide, graduating with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees. Against this, some in the parliamentary party speculate that Kristina Keneallys ascent to the position of deputy leader of the opposition in the Senate is not necessarily good for Penny. The thing about Penny Wong, however, is that few such tales of outright excess exist. Penny Wong Jay Weatherill Pictures, Photos & Images - Zimbio Butler is the former secretary of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union in South Australia; he has also served on Labor's national executive committee and is viewed as an exceptional talent federally for Labor (a fact which would no doubt have puzzled his great-grandfather, the 1920s Liberal premier Sir Richard Butler, were he still around). With Labor winning government in the 2022 Australian federal election, Wong became Minister for Foreign Affairs. [36], On returning to Adelaide, Wong began practising law, working as a solicitor at the firm Duncan and Hannon (19961999). [19][20] Wong grew up speaking dialects of Malay (Bahasa Melayu), Chinese, and English. A number of her contemporaries at university went on to become Australian politicians; former senator for South Australia, Natasha Stott Despoja, former Premier of South Australia Jay Weatherill[26] and health minister Mark Butler, were contemporaries. "She was methodical, serious and committed - in the left, she was known as 'Penny the Prefect'.". With the Kevin 07 ALP victory, she became minister for climate change and water, a frontbench heavyweight. Weatherill subsequently publicly announced that he had conceded, saying, "I'm sorry I couldn't bring home another victory, but I do feel like one of those horses that has won four Melbourne Cups and I think the handicap has caught up with us on this occasion. She is an introvert, in this media-saturated age an insuperable liability in pursuit of the top job. Penny Wong is an Australian politician who has been public about her sexual orientation. Check out the latest pictures, photos and images of Jay Weatherill and Penny Wong. She is a forensic Senate operative in the John Faulkner mould. She is charming, but also cutting. The incoming Liberal government won a total of 25 seats, with crossbench independents holding 3 seats. [72], Wong is a practising Christian, attending Pilgrim Uniting Church in Adelaide. On the one hand she fears the electoral impact the percentage of Australians who would change their vote because of her. In stores 1 October. 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. Following Labor's victory in the 2007 election, she was appointed Minister for Climate Change, going on to lead for Australia at the landmark 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. And now she is one of Kevin Rudd's most senior cabinet ministers, charged with driving an international consensus on climate change, and a domestic consensus on water management. In two years the agency had created over 9,000 jobs for South Australians. "They had ambition, vitality, energy - they were a generation that really wanted to make a difference," Bolkus recalls. TOP 19 QUOTES BY JAY WEATHERILL | A-Z Quotes Her new book Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2019) was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant. Finally, well into Simonss writing, she was invited to Senator Wongs office, where Wong gave her a hard time. [55] In March 2019, Wong was named the 2018 McKinnon Political Leader of the Year.[56]. I suppose I think people have very different ways in which they express their spirituality. She was trying to take the club over and I was trying to defend it. Editor at Ghanafuo.com! "I ran it as a non-factional group," recalls Karzis from his Adelaide legal office, breaking off to laugh uproariously before adding: "That is, there was no other faction than mine. The reporter is also a University of Adelaide alumnus. She has been entirely consistent, rejecting the idea in private as in public. [53], In 2015, Weatherill invited the South Australian Law Reform Institute to review all legislation for discrimination against the LGBTIQ community resulting in a number of bills eventually being passed in the South Australian Parliament. [57] There were concerns that if the steelworks fell over Whyalla would be unlikely to survive, with one in six of Whyalla's workers employed by Arrium at the time. The hospital has been described as "the most advanced in the nation". LNP won't give free vote #qanda, #qanda is the major contributor to my premier envy, first Daniel Andrews and now Jay Weatherill. Wong first visited Adelaide as a two-year-old on a visit with her mother. During 1995 and 1996, Wong acted as an advisor to the CFMEU and to the newly elected New South Wales state government, specializing in the area of forest policy in the middle of the fierce 1990s environmental battles over logging in NSW. It gave Wong a strong sense of a divine force to which there were many paths. The opposition is now dominated by her allies. She is fiercely intellectual, yet also emotional. Despite the outcome, there was actually a statewide two-party-preferred swing away from the Liberals toward Labor of over 1%. Jay Weatherill brings down house SOUTH Australia Premier and Penny Wong's ex Jay Weatherill drew cheers as he called on Australia to take a good hard look at itself. 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. Weatherill is a stand-out political performer among premiers and the biggest player in the boutique-size world of South Australian politics but few doubt that his skills would travel, if only he were prepared to do likewise. [43], Weatherill joined with Liberal premiers proclaiming he would lead a national campaign against the then federal Abbott government's 2014 federal budget. [34] Following an organised campaign by Jay Weatherill and Labor, the Advertiser newspaper, workers at the Australian Submarine Corporation and the South Australian public, a competitive evaluation process was announced by the Federal Government, with the final contract for a South Australian build awarded to French company DCNS with majority of the work to take place in Osborne, South Australia. Perhaps because she is different from other politicians, Penny Wong tends to be what one of her staffers described as a floating signifier a symbol with no agreed meaning. During his university days, he had a relationship with current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Penny Wong. Joe Hockey. Upon Labor's victory at the 2022 election, Wong was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, and resumed her role as Leader of the Government in the Senate. Colleagues now describe her as "relentless", and this word sums up her progress through the federal parliamentary Labor Party, of which she has been a member for just five years. The question everyone asks when they know you are writing a book about Penny Wong is whether she will ever be prime minister, and if not, why not. Keneally, on the other hand, is an ambitious contemporary of Wongs, just a few weeks younger, a former premier of New South Wales and a good media performer. However, what many dont know is that she was previously in a relationship with Jay Weatherill. Another - her former Labor club colleague Amy Barrett, who is now a lawyer in Sydney - says Wong was not given to skulduggery. [62][63][64][65], On 16 June, Wong visited New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta to reaffirm bilateral relations and cooperation in the areas of climate change, indigenous, and Indo-Pacific issues. She is a very good performer. [31] One month later, while protesting outside a state Labor Party convention at the Adelaide Trades Hall, Wong had a conversation with Young Labor member Lois Boswell, who told her that "if you wanted to really make a difference, you had to be inside the room having that battle." Please try again later. Wong's present relationship with partner Sophie Allouache, with whom she has two children, is zealously guarded from public view, including from Simons, who wrote the biography initially against Wong's wishes, eventually replaced with slight support given through gritted teeth.Simons' book implicitly shows the inadequacy of an identity approach to understanding Wong and explaining her career while also demonstrating how crucial identity can be as an organising category for righting specific wrongs in particular historical moments. 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. "There was a bit of a problem with blood," she explains briskly. As leader of the party, he said his responsibilities were to lead and, when asked his opinion, to give his judgment. [37] From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a legal officer with the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union. In 1989 Wong was elected general secretary of the university Labor Club; others viewed her as the one in charge. In addition to Jay Weatherill heading up the election review, Tim Gartrell, the man who ran the same-sex marriage campaign, is now Albanese's chief of staff. Some of this was through suspension of major works programs such as the electrification of the Gawler and Outer Harbor rail lines, and redevelopments of Modbury Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital. What happens if Labor doesnt win the next election, expected in 2022? Ms Wong came out as a lesbian a month after she assumed office on 1 July 2002. Principled and pragmatic, charming and cutting: Labor senator Penny Wong. Yet there are recurrent reminders of Simonss tense relationship with her subject. And, around Albanese, Penny Wongs allies and collaborators are grouping. But it is also a keen assessment of her own talents, limitations and abilities. [36] Weatherill also released the French Engagement Strategy, a plan to strengthen economic and business ties with France, also focusing on broader opportunities in areas such as education, tourism and the arts. [66][67], During a 2023 Senate estimates hearing, Wong was asked about the presence of nuclear weapons aboard nuclear-capable B-52s and B2 Sprits U.S. bombers, which operate regularly out of northern Australia. If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment. The book's third surprise is Wong's matter-of-fact segue from a five-year relationship with the then young Labor activist Jay Weatherill later Premier of SA for seven years to relationships with women. Wong was born in 1968 in the northern Borneo city of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah. Penny Wong. Such is the randomness of creation's miracle. She then studied and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours at the University of Adelaide, and completed a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice at the University of South Australia. After all, in profiles of Labor's Senate leader and shadow foreign affairs minister the words "woman", "lesbian" and "Asian" are never far away from the word "Wong". [20], In 2011/2012, Weatherill and then Environment Minister Paul Caica brought together irrigators, business, River Murray communities and South Australians more generally to fight for a better deal for the River and South Australia. [86] He is a supporter of the Port Adelaide Football Club. Lawyer Jay Weatherill lauded as good listener | The Australian It's deeply personal, and it has sustained me at difficult times of my life. Twitter users said they were shocked at the dehumanisation of refugees by the ex-Liberal senator. [12], In late July 2011, senior figures within Labor had indicated to Rann that both the left and right Labor factions had agreed to replace Rann with Weatherill as party leader. Freakish powers of a formidable operator - The Sydney Morning Herald Certainly, Wong is known widely within the party for her driving ambition, and her lack of squeamishness about the hard and unattractive side of factional business, of which she saw plenty through the Crean/Latham era. Press Esc to cancel. "If it means that we as a nation if it shows that we are a nation where people can achieve things just on their abilities, then it is a good thing," she says, with rare hesitance.
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