Penny Wong : passion and principle : the biography / by Margaret Simons.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Black Inc., 2019.Description: xii, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781760640859 (paperback)
- Wong, Penny
- Wong, Penny -- Family
- Australian Labor Party -- Biography
- Australian Labor Party
- Australian Labor Party -- Biography
- Asians
- Families
- Gay activists
- Legislators
- Lesbians
- Politicians
- Women legislators
- Biographies
- Asians -- Australia -- Biography
- Politicians -- Australia -- Biography
- Legislators -- Australia -- Biography
- Women legislators -- Australia -- Biography
- Gay activists -- Australia -- Biography
- Lesbians -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 324.294 SIM | Available | 069974 |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected Australian politicians, written by one of Australia?s foremost biographers. Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide. In this first-ever biography of Penny Wong, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons traces her story: from her early life in Malaysia, to her student activism in Adelaide, to her time in the turbulent Rudd and Gillard governments, to her key role as a voice of reason in the polarising campaign to legalise same-sex marriage. What emerges is a picture of a leader for modern Australia, a cool-headed and cautious yet charismatic figure of piercing intelligence, with a family history linking back to Australia?s colonial settlers and to the Asia-Pacific. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Penny Wong and her Labor colleagues, parliamentary opponents, and close friends and family, this is a scintillating insight into an Australian politician without precedence.