Penny Wong

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Penelope Ying-Yen Wong (born 5 November 1968) is an Australian politician who has served as the minister for foreign affairs and the leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Labor Party, she has been a senator for South Australia since 2002, and served as a minister in the Rudd, Gillard, and second Rudd governments. Born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, to a Chinese-Malaysian father from the town of Sandakan and an English-Australian mother from Adelaide, Wong was educated at Scotch College prior to attending the University of Adelaide, graduating with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees. She then worked as a lawyer and political advisor. Wong entered politics by winning a Senate seat in the 2001 election. Following Labor's victory in the 2007 election, she was appointed Australia's first-ever Minister for Climate Change, going on to represent the country at the landmark 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Following...

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