Penny Wong is not interested in contesting to be leader. She manages her ego, rather than the other way around | OPINION
When it's pointed out to Penny Wong that she is the fourth most recognised politician on the front bench of either major party according to a new poll, her response is to say that she's the only Asian among them. In other words, no big deal.
Wong consistently has put the greater good over her own self-interest. For instance, in her speech to the Lowy Institute last week she said: "Over the course of this campaign I have been asked about the significance of an Asian-Australian being our foreign minister should Labor win the election."What is significant about that possibility is not my personal attributes. Rather what would be significant about an Asian Australian being our foreign minister is what it says about us.
It was youthful anger at what she saw as John Howard's race-based dog-whistling that drove Wong to take up politics. She has worked for inclusion for minorities, not a national splintering in pursuit of personal or political advantage. When the Turnbull government proposed laws to limit foreign interference in Australia, it would have been easy for Labor to play politics with the issue. On the weekend Paul Keating showed just how easy. He attacked the government for needlessly damaging relations with China.Australia's security chiefs were "nutters", said Keating, who needed to be "cleared out" by an incoming Labor government.
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