All registered. "Is she out?" The stability of the arrangement is one of the questions surrounding Labors immediate political future. She started to the left of the Labor Party, but in 1988 in the heat of debate and student protest over the introduction of the HECS scheme, she became convinced that it was more important to be in the room to influence policy. The end result was an additional commitment of 450 gigalitres of environmental water under the Murray Darling Basin Plan. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wong called people "comrade"; she was intensely organised; her attention to detail was rigorous.
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. Francis Yit Shing Wong was a Colombo Plan student of architecture at the University of Adelaide in the 1960s; he had married Jane Chapman and returned to Sabah with her. [2], Following the 2010 election, Weatherill as a cabinet minister in the Rann government, unsuccessfully challenged Kevin Foley for the position of Deputy Premier.
Jay Weatherill is not a London High Commissioner candidate Over the course of last month's election she served as Labor's federal campaign spokeswoman, proving to be articulate and surefooted; on being asked anything about her private life, however, she gets tongue-tied. [54] She was also appointed Labor's foreign affairs spokesperson. Will she quit politics if Labor fails next time around? With the Kevin 07 ALP victory, she became minister for climate change and water, a frontbench heavyweight. In the Senate from 2002, Wong would find her feet as a politician and gradually rose within the ALP. "She was totally focused on politics, right from when she started," says Kris Hanna, another comrade who ended up in the South Australian Parliament - he now serves as an independent, having defected from Labor several years ago. There is a Twitter account devoted to her eyebrows. [13][14][15][16][17] In early August 2011 Weatherill's attempts at contacting Rann on his trade mission to India had been met with silence, leaving the party leadership in limbo until Rann's return to Australia. [32] Despite this, the government included funding for the Gawler railway line up to Dry Creek, a number of measures supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs, and promised a return to surplus by 20152016. She was barely 18 when she seized control of the campus Labor club at the University of Adelaide; her methodical destruction of the existing power structure there gave an early glimpse of her freakish powers. [71], In September 2017, at the opening of the International Astronautical Congress held in South Australia, Weatherill announced the South Australian Space Industry Centre. She also remarked on Pauline Hansons right to air her views, saying: No country has ever made herself safer by attacking a particular ethnic minority. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. After Weatherill, her relationships were with women.
Jay Weatherill touted for UK High Commissioner | The Australian Jay Weatherill has never shirked a challenge | The Advertiser - adelaidenow The report indicated that it was not commercially viable to generate nuclear power. Authors; . The better answer is that she has never aspired to the job. In fact, Wong's generation of Adelaide university student politics produced an aberrantly large crop of professional politicians. #samesexmarriage #qanda, Jay Weatherill said it as it is, pass the legislation now. [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. Refugees are not ants or @Skittles, tweeted Gareth Llewellyn. In 2000 Wong applied to have her Malaysian citizenship revoked, which it was in 2001. Her South Australian mother, Jane Chapman, had fallen in love with Colombo Plan University of Adelaide architecture student Francis Wong. 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. In late 1996, Wong, at the invitation of the SA ALPs left, returned to Adelaide to seek preselection for the Senate. Penelope Ying-Yen Wong was born in 1968 in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah in the North Borneo part of Malaysia. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she has been a Senator for South Australia since 2002. ", Wong remembers: "We had these big fights about who would control the Labor Club. Wong worked part-time as an organiser for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union through the concluding stages of her law degree, but still managed to graduate with honours. Penny Wong was born to Jane Chapman and Francis Wong. "We don't want that in state parliament," he said. "It's a very private matter. Penny Wong: Passion and principleby Margaret Simons, Black Inc., $34.99 pb, 368 pp, 9781760640859. In Wongs view, this legitimated the kind of racist abuse she and Toby had received. Kevin Rudd AC @AmboRudd. Sarah Harris has led a touching tribute for Jock Zonfrillo on The Project, choking back tears as she remembered the famed chef. Qanda effect or actually more likeable, Ms Wong backed her fellow Labor politician and university boyfriend, adding: I think Jay made the right point.. A Scotch College scholarship changed Wong's fortunes and unconsciously reconnected her with her mother's Adelaide establishment forebears. I made it clear I don't support this," he told ABC Radio on Friday. A close friend of late chef Jock Zonfrillo has revealed how devastating his death is to The Project panel. [29] The 20132014 budget saw revenue increase, in part due to the privatisation of SA Lotto to Tatts Group for $427 million,[30] and of forests in the State's south-east to international company The Campbell Group for $670 million. [21], The 20122013 budget was Weatherill's first, with Jack Snelling as treasurer, and came with deep cuts aiming to achieve major savings. Penny Wong. [22] After her parents separated, she moved to Adelaide, South Australia, at the age of eight with her mother and younger brother. [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. Emma Reynolds Their relationship began while Wong was at university and Weatherill was an industrial officer for the Australian Workers Union. In 1989 Wong was elected general secretary of the university Labor Club; others viewed her as the one in charge. In a powerful maiden speech in August 2002, Wong paid special tribute to Toby, called for Australia to unite as a compassionate country, and condemned the racist division of Australian society exacerbated by Pauline Hanson and John Howard. It came after audience member David Hunter posed a question to Penny Wong about whether Labor might be smarter to agree to a plebiscite so a decision would be guaranteed early next year.
[51] Wong retained the position of Minister for Finance after Kevin Rudd's successful leadership spill in June 2013.
South Australia's 10 most poisonous political feuds Penny Wong delivers condolence speech for colleague Kimberley Kitching Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University, an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a former president of the Australian Historical Association. The pair did not have any children together. Life improved greatly when Penny won a scholarship to the lite Scotch College. [83] In 2021, he was reported to have moved to Perth, Western Australia and be working for Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation, promoting an early childhood development campaign named Thrive by Five. Notably, the AAA credit rating achieved under the Rann government was lost, downgraded to AA+ in October,[22] a move foreshadowed by Snelling. "[77][78][79][80], Peter Malinauskas became Leader of the Opposition and succeeded Weatherill who had resigned as Labor leader, with Susan Close as deputy, following a Labor caucus meeting on 9 April 2018. 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". [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. He later studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with degrees in law and economics. Weatherill announced his intention to retire from Parliament on 6 December 2018. The pair were in a relationship for five years after meeting in the late 1980s at Adelaide University, then attended by a large number of future politicians. Brad Orchard parents: Who are his father and mother? The opposition is now dominated by her allies. [10] Her parents were Jane (ne Chapman), an English Australian whose forebears first reached South Australia on Cygnet in 1836,[11] and Francis Wong, a Malaysian Chinese man of Cantonese[12] and Hakka[13] origin who lived in Sandakan during the Japanese occupation of British Borneo. [23], After starting at Coromandel Valley Primary School, Wong gained a scholarship to Scotch College, Adelaide, where she studied chemistry, physics and mathematics. When Penny was eight, her parents separated. Ms Wong came out as a lesbian a month after she assumed office on 1 July 2002. It portrays the kind of person both sides of politics need more of: intelligent, focused, hard-working, with a consistent set of values and, crucially, aware of and able to work within the realities of politics, including the ability to play a long game. Editor at Ghanafuo.com! [1] Wong entered politics by winning a Senate seat in the 2001 election. Labor Senator for South Australia. Before she finished her degree she began work as a paralegal with the Federated Furnishing Trade union. On 21 January 2013, Weatherill became Treasurer of South Australia and took other various portfolios following a cabinet reshuffle triggered by the resignation of two members of his ministry. ", "Brown "horrified" at Wong's anti-gay marriage stance", "Since March 2019 government trust & distrust have fluctuated but 2021 ended with soaring levels of distrust", "Passion and principle: Penny Wong is far from done", "Labor voice inspired by the fight for ideas", "lumen Australian experience builds global perspective", "First Day: Penny Wong's journey from shy student to Senator", "Freakish powers of a formidable operator", "Can Wong avert carbon-fuelled train wreck? Bill Shorten. It's deeply personal, and it has sustained me at difficult times of my life. [45] Following the death of Such, Labor won the 2014 Fisher by-election by nine votes from a 7.3 percent two-party swing in a hotly contested three-cornered contest. . Weatherill claimed these grants created 10,000 jobs in their first year. The only Asian faces at the local primary school, Penny and Toby were relentlessly bullied and the family home splashed with racist graffiti.
'What on earth are we doing?': Jay Weatherill brings down house Another - her former Labor club colleague Amy Barrett, who is now a lawyer in Sydney - says Wong was not given to skulduggery. [77], Wong's partner, Sophie Allouache, is a public servant and former University of Adelaide Students' Association president. Yet the cult of Penny Wong has enduring power because it is not built on fiction. She has never sought to disguise or advertise her sexuality, which - after her undergraduate experimentation with the opposite sex - has long been settled in its present orientation.
South Australia's Premier Jay Weatherill a politician with uncommon [3], Born in the western suburbs of Adelaide, he is the son of English-born former South Australian politician George Weatherill. Such is the randomness of creation's miracle. If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment. In a July 1988 election, Wong won a position on the board of the Adelaide University Union as part of the newly-formed Progressive Education Team. [54], During this time, Weatherill also issued a formal apology to the LGBTIQ community for historical discrimination, and signed South Australia up to the trial of the HIV prevention drug PrEP. Penny Wong is an Australian politician who has been public about her sexual orientation. 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Jay Weatherill threatens to quit if Don Farrell preselected [35] She was admitted to the South Australian Bar in 1993. She is a practising Christian. She is one of the most significant political talents of our times or, as she might put it, of our generation. Asked why no other countries were vying for the privilege if this was such a good idea, he answered: If you regard yourself as an international citizen, if this is the best place in the world to store waste, which has to exist somewhere in the world, it isnt going away., Host Tony Jones joked with him: Do you have a vision here? Wong was born in 1968 in the northern Borneo city of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah. Jay Wilson Weatherill AO (born 3 April 1964)[1] is a former Australian politician who was the 45th Premier of South Australia, serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018. [10] Upon election he immediately entered the cabinet of the Rann government as Minister for Local Government, Government Enterprise, Urban Development and Planning, and Administrative Services. On the student council he was regarded as one of the school's "leading lights". Updated: November 15, 2012 [2][6], Between 1987 and 1990, he worked for the Australian Workers' Union. [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. Who is Penny Wong first boyfriend Jay Weatherill? - Ghanafuo.com Biography Penny Wong Margaret Simons Black Inc., . If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. (modern), Jay Weatherill: Senator Farrell associated with disunity that led to destruction of federal Labor party. Wong rejects any view of herself and Keneally as rivals. [23] Other actions during Weatherill's first 12 months included a deal to increase shopping hours on public holidays, supported by SDA secretary Peter Malinauskas and Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan,[24] and Weatherill's support for a Greens-initiated gay marriage bill following the announcement of Tasmania's planned changes. In these populist times, people tend to see her as what they wish her to be, rather than what she is. We should all be grateful that Simons has given us this clear, well-researched, and comprehensive biography, and that Wong eventually contributed the personal memories and views that round it out.
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