[SunkenCiv]

Sky News host Rita Panahi says it appears Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong is “damaging” Australia’s position on China for “domestic partisan purposes”.

Ms Panahi said the Labor MP sounds like the “shadow minister for kowtowing” to China after Ms Wong’s recent comments.

“How often do you hear Penny Wong call out her state counterparts for their grovelling to China? You know the answer to that.”

“She's too busy doing the same for partisan purposes.”

Penny Wong is ‘damaging’ Australia’s position on China for ‘domestic partisan purposes’ | November 24, 2021 | Sky News Australia

[Fred Nerks]

She’s ‘woke’

She held Malaysian citizenship until 2001.[58]

Wong is a lesbian and came out publicly a month after she assumed her Senate seat in 2002.[59] In 2010, Wong was selected by readers of Samesame website as one of the 25 most influential lesbian Australians.[60] Wong’s domestic partner, Sophie Allouache, is a public servant and former University of Adelaide Students’ Association president.[1] In December 2011, Allouache gave birth to their first child,[61] after announcing the IVF-assisted pregnancy using donor sperm in August 2011.[62] Allouache gave birth to their second daughter in 2015, at the Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital.[63] While at university, Wong dated Jay Weatherill, who later became Premier of South Australia.[18]