Category: Penny Wong

‘Closed and Opaque’: Australia Decries China’s Legal Process for Detained Writer Yang Hengjun

May 22, 2021
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Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has called out the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency regarding an impending closed-door trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun who has been detained in China since January 2019. She indicated that Beijing has failed to conform to the basic standards of international norms of transparency and implored the communist regime to…

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Opposition Foreign Affairs Minister Accuses Australian PM of Inflaming Tensions with China

May 19, 2021
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Australia’s Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong has accused the Morrison government of “encouraging anxiety” around possible conflict with China and “pandering to the far-right” interests of the Liberal government. Wong was speaking at a book launch for journalist Peter Hartcher’s “Red Zone: China’s Challenge,” where she spoke extensively of the threat posed by the Chinese…

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PM: A Coalition Government Will Always ‘Stand up for Australia’

May 18, 2021
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that Australians can always rely on a coalition government to “stand up for Australia” after Labor Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesperson Penny Wong told ABC she worried he does not fully comprehend Australia’s interests in relation to China, nor seek to. “Australians can always rely on the Liberals and the Nationals,…

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Australian Labor Party to Recognise Palestine If Elected

March 31, 2021
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has pledged to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state if it wins the next federal election and forms government. Arthur Tane of The Council of Middle East Relations says the move is sudden and suspects Labor leader Anthony Albanese may be working to appease the left-leaning factions of his Party….

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