Penny Wong

Penelope YingYen Penny Wong is an Australian politician who has represented South Australia in the Senate since 2002, and is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Wong is a member of the Labor Party and was a member of the Federal Cabinet in both the Gillard Government and the first and second Rudd governments.

Wong was born in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, to Jane and Francis Wong. Her mother was an Australian and her father was Malaysian Chinese of Hakka origin. At the age of eight, after her parents separated, she moved to Adelaide, South Australia, with her mother and younger brother.

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