Penny Wong

Penny Wong will be looking to repair Australia's damaged relationship with China when she becomes the foreign minister after Labor's historic election win.

'We're in a period very similar to the 1930s.' May 18: The World Health Organization backs a partial investigation into the pandemic, but China says it is a 'joke' for Australia to claim credit. April 25, 2022: Defence Minister Peter Dutton warns on Anzac Day that Russia and China's resurgence means Australia must be on a war-footing. The move cuts off all diplomatic contact with Beijing under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, freezing discussions between key officials below a ministerial level. Australia says it may challenge this at the WTO. The move outraged Australians. 'That's not always the case. Britain and France are initially reluctant but more than 100 countries eventually back an investigation. 2019: Australian intelligence services conclude that China was responsible for a cyber-attack on Australia's parliament and three largest political parties in the run-up to a May election. 'We won't be abandoning the positions that cause China concern – Australia's position on the South China Sea, Australia's right to determine who builds its 5G network and who is part of the NBN,' Ms Wong said. Ms Wong said the extraordinary attack to portray the Opposition as weak on national security and a puppet of an enemy power, was an act of 'desperation'. - Ms Wong is hoping to repair the relationship between Australia and China

Penny Wong, born in Malaysia, will be the first Asian-born person to hold an Australian cabinet position. There are hopes pinned on the openly gay ...

After graduating, she worked for trade unions and took part in campaigns to improve pay and living conditions of the union members. The security pact under which the US and UK would help Australia with nuclear-powered submarines had left Beijing fuming, calling the alliance, ‘extremely irresponsible’. China’s ties with Australia has been on a downhill slide April 2020. Since 2016, Wong has been the shadow foreign affairs minister. She is also Australia’s first openly gay female parliamentarian. She is the first Asian-born person to hold an Australian cabinet position.

She is described as being the second-most-powerful member of incoming prime minister Anthony Albanese's team.

They are Foreign minister Penny Wong and Western Australia MP Sam Lim. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

"I had a runny nose and was blowing my nose in the bathroom. If you feel hurt, you jump into the swimming pool. "I wanted her to be a doctor and she enrolled for it. In 2013, she became the leader of the government in the Senate and later, after the change of government, she was appointed the leader of the ppposition in the Senate. The Johor-born Mr Lim was a former dolphin trainer and a policeman who was awarded Officer of the Year at the Nine News Police Excellence Awards in December 2020 for his role with multicultural communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ms Wong was elected senator in 2001 and in 2008, and became the first Asian-born member of an Australian Cabinet when she served as climate change minister in the Kevin Rudd administration.

Labor Party senator Penny Wong smiles as she introduces party leader Anthony Albanese at an event in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, May 22, 2022 | AP.

One of the first tasks ahead of Wong would be to repair Australia's relationship with China, which has been strained in recent times. And since 2016, she has been the shadow foreign affairs minister. Who is the new foreign minister and what does her appointment mean to Australia's foreign policy?

Veteran senior politician Penny Wong, who was born in Kota Kinabalu, is slated to take office today as Foreign Affairs Minister under the Labour government of ...

“I had a runny nose and was blowing my nose in the bathroom. When I came out someone hugged me and tried to throw me in the air and I was thinking to myself, ‘What is happening’,” he was quoted as saying. In 2013, she became Leader of the Government in the Senate.