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Penny Wong

James Curran on Labor's foreign policy manoeuvres

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The ABR Podcast
Penny Wong and Sitiveni Rabuka (photograph by DFAT/Sarah Hodges)

In this week’s ABR podcast, James Curran considers the response of Asia-Pacific nations to the government’s decision to retain AUKUS, the major foreign affairs initiative of the Morrison government. In seeking to shape this response, Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s message is necessarily complex, argues Curran.

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Penny Wong: Passion and principle by Margaret Simons

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December 2019, no. 417
Angela Woollacott reviews 'Penny Wong: Passion and principle' by Margaret Simons

Every biographer has a relationship with their subject, even if they have passed away. A real advantage for biographers of the dead is that the subject cannot say what they think about the book. The relationship between Margaret Simons and Penny Wong was fraught. 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 Wong’s assistance and against her will. 

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