Last modified on Tue 13 Mar 2018 13.51 EDT. Id just like to get it done.. And, around Albanese, Penny Wongs allies and collaborators are grouping. Weatherill claimed these grants created 10,000 jobs in their first year. It takes the passion and principle of the title, along with the ability to persist and bear a lot of pain in pursuit of purposeful goals. . Technically, Wong was never really "in". We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name. 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). [81], In June 2019, he was appointed as an industry professor at the University of South Australia. [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. [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. Jay Weatherill has never shirked a challenge | The Advertiser - adelaidenow Weatherill told Frydenberg the Federal Liberal government was the "most anti-SA government in living memory" and claimed the Federal Government's plan for Snowy Hydro 2.0 was a sign of a government in a "white-knuckled panic about national energy policy". 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 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. Twitter users said they were shocked at the dehumanisation of refugees by the ex-Liberal senator. the capital of Sabah in Malaysia. At the end of 1994 she moved to Sydney to work for the CFMEU. Will she quit politics if Labor fails next time around? In other words, she is well suited to the leadership of the party in the Senate. Simons notes that Wongs Liberal opponents have only good things to say about her (as does the cleaner in charge of ministerial offices at Parliament House), and that she is commonly regarded with a mixture of fear and respect. Labor MP for Adelaide . [78] In December 2011, Allouache gave birth to their first child,[79] after announcing the IVF-assisted pregnancy using donor sperm in August 2011. [46], In 2015, Weatherill initiated the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission to investigate opportunities and risks associated with expanding the state's involvement in the nuclear fuel cycle. Australian politician (born 1968), Minister for Foreign Affairs, *The Liberal and National totals include members of the, Gillard and Second Rudd governments (20102013), openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian, become part of the Federation of Malaysia, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union, Australian Industrial Relations Commission, "The Hon. The better answer is that she has never aspired to the job. I deliver factual information from all over the world and ensure that my readers get only the best of the best. Her grandmother was Buddhist, her father identified as Catholic and her mother was raised a Methodist. ", Wong remembers: "We had these big fights about who would control the Labor Club. Jay Weatherill threatens to quit if Don Farrell preselected In Wongs view, this legitimated the kind of racist abuse she and Toby had received. Wong, who was at the University of Adelaide with nascent Australian Democrat MP Natasha Stott Despoja and journalists David Penberthy, Samantha Maiden and Annabel Crabb, also has in her past a five-year relationship with the former South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill. In two years the agency had created over 9,000 jobs for South Australians. I have mine. Penny Wong - Wikipedia Rollo Armstrong children: Does Rollo Armstrong have kids? [82] In July 2019, he was appointed to conduct a review of Federal Labor's loss at the 2019 Australian federal election. She is an introvert, in this media-saturated age an insuperable liability in pursuit of the top job. Readers will be glad that Wong overcame her resistance to this intrusion into her life: the stories in Wongs voice and her personal memories are rich elements of the book. 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. Media Statements Opinion Pieces Transcripts Speeches. Please try again later. Yet the cult of Penny Wong has enduring power because it is not built on fiction. 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. The federal parliament can get on with the business of passing the same-sex marriage legislation., Twitter user Eric Malcolm remarked that the Premier was making sense for the first time.. Its a pretty fundamental question of respect. She joined the ALP and has been on its left ever since. These included laws to ensure equal access to IVF and surrogacy services for same sex couples, equal access to adoption, the establishment of a relationships register, the removal of discriminatory language throughout legislation, formal protections for intersex people, and changes to make amending a gender on a birth certificate easier. Wong called people "comrade"; she was intensely organised; her attention to detail was rigorous. Penny Wong Jay Weatherill Pictures, Photos & Images - Zimbio Meant to be here: Projects sad Jock reveal. If Labor does find a seat in the House of Representatives for Wong, she would immediately be a highly qualified candidate for the top job, due to her intellect, political and policy acumen, as well as her speaking skills, compassion, and determination. | Tim Hollo, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. South Australian premier says senator is threat to him the 'very last impression' the Labor party wants to give electorate. But Weatherill said he did see the senator as a threat to him, which was the "very last impression" the Labor party wanted to give electorate. The biography covers Wongs personal life, albeit very briefly compared to the politics, by far its main focus. [64], In 2017, Weatherill announced a plan to reform South Australia's electricity supply,[65][66] as a response to a number of blackouts that affected large numbers of South Australian residents and businesses in 2016. "They had ambition, vitality, energy - they were a generation that really wanted to make a difference," Bolkus recalls. Jay Wilson Weatherill AO (born 3 April 1964) is a former Australian politician who was the 45th Premier of South Australia, serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018.Weatherill represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of the South Australian Labor Party from the 2002 election to 17 December 2018, when he retired.. Labor was in government from 2002, with . Here is the book's first surprise: Penny Wong is a churchgoer. 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. A plebiscite is all about the internal politics of the Liberal Party, not about delivering marriage equality, she went on. Yet there are recurrent reminders of Simonss tense relationship with her subject. [75], The record-16-year-incumbent SA Labor government was seeking a fifth four-year term at the 2018 election, but was defeated by the opposition SA Liberals, led by Steven Marshall. She took a job in industrial law with a firm that represented unions on the left, then moved to the Miscellaneous Workers Union to work with Mark Butler, president of the SA Labor party. Every biographer has a relationship with their subject, even if they have passed away. And we see, over and over, how racism was so pervasive in her life that inevitably it became the paramount issue for her. Nevertheless, some wonder whether she will reconsider if the partys success seems to depend on it, and when her children are older. There are two sides to this concern. Penny Wong Connections - Zimbio But Ms Wong criticised Manus and Nauru, saying it was never envisaged that those facilities should become centres of indefinite detention. [3], Born in the western suburbs of Adelaide, he is the son of English-born former South Australian politician George Weatherill. TOP 19 QUOTES BY JAY WEATHERILL | A-Z Quotes Labor Senator for South Australia. [38] While Liberal Shadow Treasurer Rob Lucas claimed South Australia was careering toward double digit unemployment after the closure,[39] strong support from the Weatherill Labor government ensured the small business sector grew above trend after the closure[40] with unemployment at 6% in January 2017, three months after. [71], In September 2017, at the opening of the International Astronautical Congress held in South Australia, Weatherill announced the South Australian Space Industry Centre. Mr Wortley and his lower house colleague, wife Dana, are polarising figure within Labor who have switched from the Left to Right factions. Keneally replaced Don Farrell in that position. Comments John Faulkner, phlegmatically, How long are you going to condemn her to sit in parliament?. In a reshuffle of the South Australian Cabinet that week, Weatherill also announced the expanded the portfolio to become 'Defence and Space Industries'. The audience roared with laughter as he added: Would you put it on your numberplates? In 2016 she was made shadow minister for foreign affairs. [60], In 2016, Weatherill supported calls for increasing the GST to 15%. 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. South Australian Senator Penny Wong, a close friend with whom he had a five-year relationship during their Young Labor years, said he was adept at reading people's emotions. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), she has been a Senator for South Australia since 2002. Her natural strength is policy and strategy. In June 2005, Wong was appointed Shadow Minister for Employment and Workforce Participation,[43] and Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility. ", "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? 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. As she puts it, Why would I do it to myself and my family?. She has been entirely consistent, rejecting the idea in private as in public. Following the reshuffle in December 2006, she became responsible for the portfolios of Public Administration and Accountability, Corporate Governance and Responsibility, and Workforce Participation. [21], The 20122013 budget was Weatherill's first, with Jack Snelling as treasurer, and came with deep cuts aiming to achieve major savings. [44] Former Liberal Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith then defected, becoming an independent and entered the Weatherill cabinet. Weatherill. "We don't want that in state parliament," he said. She is a forensic Senate operative in the John Faulkner mould. She is both principled and pragmatic. She absorbs meaning as well as projecting it. Despite the outcome, there was actually a statewide two-party-preferred swing away from the Liberals toward Labor of over 1%. 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. Jay Weatherill announces Royal Commission into Murray-Darling Plan In 2013 she became Leader of the Government in the Senate, the first woman to do so, and later the upper houses Leader of the Opposition. [2], Weatherill defeated the incumbent Labor member Murray De Laine for Labor preselection in the electorate of Cheltenham at the 2002 election and went on to retain the seat for Labor. Her initial plan was to be a doctor, and to work for Medecins Sans Frontieres; she won a spot in medical school in 1986, deferred it, and then left for an exchange year in Brazil, where she volunteered at a hospital - and quickly changed her career plans. The end result was an additional commitment of 450 gigalitres of environmental water under the Murray Darling Basin Plan. 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. 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. [41], The 2014 State election resulted in a hung parliament with 23 seats for Labor, 22 for the Liberals, and the balance of power resting with the two independents, Bob Such and Geoff Brock. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jay Weatherill is not a London High Commissioner candidate 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. Arriving at the University of Adelaide in 1987 as a first-year arts student, the politically conscious Wong dabbled with a couple of environmental groups and the left-wing group CISCAC - the Committee in Solidarity with Central America and the Caribbean. Chris Wallace is a political historian at ANU and the biographer of Germaine Greer. Australian Politician, Penelope Ying-Yen Wong, also known as Penny Wong was born on November 5th 1968 in Kota Kinabalu. In 1998 she was selected as the left factions candidate for the Senate ticket. [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. A real advantage for biographers of the dead is that the subject cannot say what they think about the book. The incoming Liberal government won a total of 25 seats, with crossbench independents holding 3 seats. This is an extract from Penny . About; Media Hub. 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?". Her Senate colleagues talk ruefully about her temper. Weatherill said the SA Labor party has been a unified party, while "for better or worse" Senator Farrell was associated with the disunity that led to the destruction of the federal party at the election. After graduating, she took a full-time organiser position there just as they were amalgamating with the CFMEU. In the Senate from 2002, Wong would find her feet as a politician and gradually rose within the ALP. "[73] Others in her wider family from Sabah are Buddhist. 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. As prime minister, selling the government message and performing in public would be an unavoidable and dominant responsibility. The report indicated that it was not commercially viable to generate nuclear power. Toby joined her at Scotch, where he did less brilliantly. Senator Penny Wong. [85], Weatherill is married to Melissa, and they have two young daughters. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill stands fast by GST position Who is Penny Wongs first boyfriend Jay Weatherill? Jay Weatherill was a great Premier and a fine Labor leader. It gave Wong a strong sense of a divine force to which there were many paths. [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 seems genuinely puzzled by the idea that anyone would be interested in the fact that she is Australia's first lesbian cabinet minister, and the first Asian-born cabinet minister, for that matter.