30ibid.
31Penny Wong, ‘Embracing our common humanity’, 2014 Angelo Roncalli Lecture, Canberra, 21 August 2014.
32Penny Wong, ‘Maiden speech’, Parliament of Australia, Canberra, 21 August 2002.
33Irene Obon, ‘A man for all seasons’, New Sabah Times, Sunday 18 July 1999, p. 2.
34‘Photograph of Francis Wong with his mother taken when he was in Form One’, Francis Yit Shing Wong Papers, ANS/KSP/FWYS/G/99/25.
35‘Photograph of Francis Wong as a teenager’, Francis Yit Shing Wong Papers, ANS/KSP/FWYS/G/99/24.
36Francis Yit Shing Wong Papers, no item number.
37ibid.
38Francis Yit Shing Wong, Student Cards, University of Adelaide Archives, SC85952 and SC85953.
39No author, ‘University award to Asian’, The Advertiser, 2 September 1965.
40No author, ‘A future Sabah architect’, Sabah Times, 1964, Sabah State Archives, ANS/KSP/FWYS/G/99/32.
41Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava, ‘Institutionalising the profession in post-colonial Malaysia’, p. 587.
42ibid.
43ibid., p. 589.
44Howard Salkow, ‘Australian experience builds global perspective’, Lumen, Summer 2005, p. 13.
45Paul Keating, ‘Anzac Day, Ela Beach, Port Moresby’, Speech, 25 April 1992.
46Rhiannon Elston, ‘First day’.
2: BUTTERFLIES AND BULLIES
1Passenger Arrival Card, Penelope Ying-Yen Wong, National Archives of Australia Series A1197, Item 11574375; Passenger Arrival Card, Barbara Jane Wong, National Archives of Australia Series A1197, Item 11574375.
2Greg Sheridan, God Is Good for You, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2018, p. 194.
3Rachel Hancock, ‘Banging out a sense of pride’, The Sunday Mail, 10 March 2002, p. 15.
4Penny Wong, ‘Maiden speech’.
5Irene Obon, ‘A man for all seasons’, pp. 2–3.
6No author, ‘History of KIS’, Kinabalu International School, 2019.
7Jane Rocca, ‘Four prominent women on why they are proud to be Australian’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 2018.
8Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2005, p. 216 and Siew-Ean Khoo and Charles A. Price, Understanding Australia’s Ethnic Composition, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1996.
9Irene Obon, ‘A man for all seasons’, pp. 2–3.
10Chok Sim Yee, ‘Sabah-born Aussie minister always aims for the best’, The Borneo Post, 19 September 2010, p. B1, in Francis Yit Shing Wong Papers, ANS/KSP/FWYS/G/99/22.
11‘Wong family tree’, in Francis Yit Shing Wong Papers, ANS/KSP/FWYS/C/99/1.
12‘Penny Wong’, Kitchen Cabinet, ABC-TV, 6 March 2012.
13No editor, ‘Our recipe to win – favourite recipes of Labor parliamentarians serving in the 45th parliament’, compiled by the campaign for Gilmore, 2016.
14‘Penny Wong’, Kitchen Cabinet.
15Peter Read and Alex Pouw-Bray, Ninety Years at Torrens Park: The Scotch College Story, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2010, pp. 337–39.
16Cluaran, Scotch College, vol. LXIV, 1981.
17Chok Sim Yee, ‘Sabah-born Aussie minister always aims for the best’.
18Cluaran, Scotch College, vol. LXVI, 1983.
19ibid., vol. LXVII, 1984.
20ibid., vol. LXVIII, 1985.
21ibid.
22ibid.
23Jane Chapman and Sue Park, ‘Marital therapy and feminism’, Australian Journal of Family Therapy, vol. 5, no. 4, 1984, pp. 259–65.
24Stilgherrian has only one name – making him mononymous.
25Annabel Crabb, ‘Freakish powers of a formidable operator’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December 2017.
26Greg Sheridan, God Is Good for You, p. 195.
3: BECOMING LABOR
1Julia Gillard, My Story, Knopf Australia, Sydney, 2014, p. 118.
2Adelaide University Union board minutes, University of Adelaide Archives, series 64, boxes 2, 19 and 21.
3Mark Batistich, ‘Students heckle minister during Wran tax protest’, The Advertiser, 12 May 1988, p. 58.
4‘Adelaide University Student Union Election statements 1998’, University of Adelaide Archives, 1988, RC371.810994A228e.
5Andrew Markus, Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp. 85–89.
6No author, ‘ALP conference delayed by dispute’, The Advertiser, 13 August 1988, p. 13.
7Peter Haynes, ‘Student tax “no” beats Bannon’, The Advertiser, 15 August 1988, p. 1.
8ibid. and Edmund Doogue, ‘SA Labor Party rebuffs Hawke government on tertiary tax’, The Age, 15 August 1988, p. 18.
9George Karzis, ‘Letter to the editor’, On Dit, 14 May 1989, p. 7.
10James Greentree, ‘Letter to the editor’, ibid.
11Adelaide University Union board minutes, box 19.
12Penny Wong, ‘Political representation – the undervalued service’, On Dit, 31 July 1989, p. 9.
4: BOLKUS LEFT
1Katharine Murphy, ‘Leaks and loose lips undermine Labor unity ahead of campaign postmortem’, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 and Sarah Martin, ‘Jay Weatherill asked to conduct “warts-and-all” review of Labor’s election loss’, The Guardian, 5 June 2019.
2Craig Clarke, ‘The federal election: Labor’s lipstick warriors’, The Sunday Mail, 7 October 2001.
3Louise Milligan, ‘Women come to the rescue’, The Australian, 12 November 2001.
4Susie O’Brien, ‘SA senators: we’re more than just pretty faces’, The Advertiser, 12 November 2001, p. 12.
5See Moira Rayner, ‘Public discourse and the power of women’, Papers on Parliament, no. 41, June 2004.
6James Massola, ‘Julia Gillard on the moment that should have killed Tony Abbott’s career’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2015.
7For example, Penny Wong, ‘Light on the Hill address’, 20 September 2014.
8Carol Johnson, Social Democracy and the Crisis of Equality: Australian Social Democracy in a Changing World, Springer, Singapore, 2019.
9See Kevin Rudd, The PM Years, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2018, p. 381 and Julia Gillard, My Story, p. 120.
10Catherine Bauer, ‘New president booed during racism debate’, The Advertiser, 12 July 1993, p. 10.
11Gary Wagener v Moinalwar Pty Ltd t/a K. and S. Dixon [1994] SAIRC 71 (23 December 1994); Industrial Relations Commission Decision 125/1994 [1994] AIRC 15 (18 January 1994); Industrial Relations Commission Decision 208/1994 [1994] AIRC 85 (9 February 1994); Industrial Relations Commission Decision 1028/1993 [1993] AIRC 1033 (6 September 1993); Industrial Relations Commission Decision 209/1994 [1994] AIRC 79 (8 February 1994); Industrial Relations Commission Decision 1220/1994 [1994] AIRC 1182 (2 August 1994).
12Brander v Ryan and Messenger Press Newspapers No. SCGRG-99-199 [2000] SASC 2 (12 January 2000).
5: INTO THE WOODS
1Judith Ajani, The Forest Wars, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, p. 16.
2Margaret Simons, Latham’s World: The New Politics of the Outsiders, Quarterly Essay 15, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2004.
3Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM, Random House Australia, Sydney, 2002, pp. 538–40.
4Greg Sheridan, God Is Good for You, pp. 191–97.
5The account here of federal government actions draws heavily on Judith Ajani, The Forest Wars, Chapters 1, 10 and 14.
6A coupe is an area of forest that can be harvested in one go – typically between 30 and 60 hectares.
7Quoted in Judith Ajani, The Forest Wars, p. 135.
8Adam Gartrell, ‘Meet Michael O’Connor, now the country’s most powerful union boss’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March 2018.
9Julia Gillard, ‘Maiden speech’, Parliament of Australia, Canberra, 11 November 1998.
10Matt Peacock, ‘NSW State Election’, Background Briefing, ABC Radio, 19 March 1995.
11ibid.
12B
ob Carr, Thoughtlines, Viking Press, Sydney, 2002, p. 317.
13Quoted in Matt Peacock, ‘NSW State Election’.
14ibid.
15Judith Ajani, The Forest Wars, p. 279.
16ibid., p. 280.
17Annie Lewis, ‘Elvis Presley “The King” lives on in Wagga’, The Daily Advertiser, 28 June 2018.
18No author, ‘Obituary: Gavin Maxwell Hillier’, The Daily Advertiser, 5 December 2018.
19Quotes from Bill Kelty eulogy provided to the author by Kim Yeadon.
20Kevin Rudd, ‘Building a better world together’, Speech at Kyoto University, Japan, 9 June 2008.
21WorkCover Corporation/HIH Winterthur Workers Compensation (SA) Ltd (Eldercare Inc.) v Marlene Keen [1997] SAWCAT 23 (7 March 1997).
22Health Services Employees Award [1997] SAIRComm 26 (18 April 1997).
23John Smith v. South Australia Meat Corporation [1996] SAWCT 3 (18 December 1996).
24Ramsey v Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Central Section Inc.) [1998] SAIRC 19 (30 April 1998).
25Olsen v WorkCover Corp. v MMI Workers Comp. (SA) Ltd (V.S.L. Prestressing Aust. Pty Ltd) [1998] SAWCT 89 (13 November 1998).
26Lyell McEwin Hospital v Childs [1998] SAWCT 79 (16 October 1998).
27Baker v WorkCover Corp. v HIH Winterthur Workers Compensation (SA) Ltd (Pacific Waste Management Pty Ltd) [1999] SAWCT 12 (19 February 1999).
28Christine Francis v WorkCover Corp./HIH Winterthur (Kate Cocks Child Care Centre) [1998] SAWCT 7 (29 January 1998).
29No author, ‘Driver’s landmark win’, The Advertiser, 9 March 1998, p. 3.
30No author, ‘ALP lawyer scores prize Senate spot’, The Advertiser, 14 May 1998, p. 36.
31Dunk & Aust. Liquor, Hospitality & Miscellaneous Workers’ Union v SA Health Commission [1998] SAIRC 63 (6 November 1998).
32Buttercup Bakeries South Australia Continuous Improvement Agreement 1997 (Renegotiation Dispute) [2000] SAIRComm 1 (10 January 2000).
33Caretakers and Cleaners Award (Menzies International Australia Pty Ltd v ALHMWU) [2002] SAIRComm 15 (3 April 2002).
34Department of Education, Training and Employment v O’Brien [2001] SAIRC 10 (5 March 2001).
35Hancock v Sanctuary Farm Child Care Centre & Kindergarten Pty Ltd [2000] SAIRC 30 (30 October 2000).
36Neil G. Wolfendale v Pilkington Australia Ltd [1994] SAIRC 21 (15 April 1994).
6: CHOSEN
1Greg Sheridan, God Is Good for You, p. 196.
2Gary Johns, ‘Clarke v Australian Labor Party’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 35, no. 1, 2000, pp. 137–42.
3Carol Altmann, ‘Tensions stack up on Labor’, The Australian, 24 March 2000, p. 5.
4Interview with Ralph Clarke MHA, 27 October 1999, cited in Gary Johns, ‘Clarke v Australian Labor Party’, pp. 137–42.
5Quoted in Matthew Abraham, ‘Bulk sign-ups thwart ALP factional trouble’, The Australian, 9 March 1999, p. 6.
6Quoted in Carol Altmann, ‘Tensions stack up on Labor’, p. 5.
7Richard McGregor and Matthew Abraham, ‘ALP racked by membership “rorts”’, The Australian, 23 April 1999, p. 2.
8Clarke v ALP (SA branch), Hurley & Ors & Brown No. SCGRG-99-874 Judgement No. S365 [1999] SASC 365 (2 September 1999).
9No author, ‘I paid to shore up the faction’, The Advertiser, 8 September 1999, p. 2.
10Miles Kemp, ‘Individual signed 878 in branch stacking’, The Advertiser, 30 October 1999, p. 19.
11David Eccles, ‘Wong wins her ticket to political prominence’, The Advertiser, 10 April 2000, p. 6.
12Wong, Penny, Citizenship Register, Parliament of Australia, Canberra.
13Liz Burke, ‘Who’s who in the citizenship saga’, news.com.au, 24 August 2017.
14No author, ‘4000 march on racism’, The Advertiser, 6 August 1998, p. 6.
15David Marr and Marian Wilkinson, Dark Victory, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003.
16No author, ‘Labor’s policy on asylum seekers’, Australian Labor Party, no date, https://www.alp.org.au/asylumseekers
7: A NEW VOICE
1Lenore Taylor, ‘The minister of cool’, Weekend Australian Magazine, 23 May 2009, p. 12.
2‘Wong, Toby’, Death notices, The Advertiser, 27 November 2001.
3Penny Wong, ‘Maiden speech’.
4ibid.
5Tony Walker and Mark Davis, ‘Federal parliament like being on a spaceship’, Australian Financial Review, 17 January 2003, p. 10.
6Samantha Maiden, ‘Linda Kirk and Penny Wong: new housemates’, The Advertiser, 10 August 2002, p. 7.
7Lyle Allan, ‘ALP modernisation, ethnic branch stacking, factionalism and the law’, People and Place, vol. 10, no. 4, 2002, p. 50.
8Samantha Maiden, ‘Labor women: the rise and rise of Penny Wong’, The Advertiser, 8 October 2002, p. 19.
9Kelvin Thomson, ‘Howard government allows increase in land clearing in Queensland’, Media release, 29 May 2003 and Kelvin Thomson, ‘Government confirms 67% cut to greenhouse programs’, Media release, 29 May 2003.
10Commonwealth of Australia, Senate Select Committee on Ministerial Discretion in Migration Matters Report, March 2004; Cynthia Banham, ‘Star visa witness misses Senate date’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 November 2004, p. 5; Peta Donald, ‘Philip Ruddock: 30 years in parliament marred by cash-for-visa allegations’, PM, ABC Radio, 22 September 2003.
11Mark Latham, Civilising Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian Labor, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998; Mark Latham, From the Suburbs, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2003; Mark Latham, The Enabling State: People Before Bureaucracies, Pluto Press, Annandale, 2001.
12Mark Latham, ‘Wedge politics and the culture war in Australia’, Menzies Lecture, 17 September 2002, published by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College, London, 2003.
13Paul Starick, ‘South Australia’s 10 most poisonous political feuds’, The Advertiser, 21 May 2014.
14‘Nick Bolkus interviewed by Peter Donovan in the Old Parliament House political and parliamentary oral history project’, National Library Political and Parliamentary Oral History Project Sound Recording, ORAL TRC 6100/17. The interview took place on 18, 19 and 29 March 2010 in Adelaide, South Australia.
15Malcolm Farr and Mark Phillips, ‘The raffle without a price was a rort’, Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2003, p. 9.
16Bolkus v Nationwide News [2005] SADC 138 (13 October 2005).
17‘Nick Bolkus interviewed by Peter Donovan in the Old Parliament House.’
18‘The Adjournment Debate’, Insiders, ABC-TV, 22 February 2004, ABC Archives ID T557443.
19ibid., 21 March 2004, ABC Archives ID T560060.
20ibid., 23 May 2004, ABC Archives ID T572593.
21ibid., no day, August 2004, ABC Archives ID T572593.
8: STAYING IN THE ROOM
1Carol Johnson, Sarah Maddison and Emma Partridge, ‘Australia: parties, federalism and rights agendas’, in Mann Tremblay, David Patternote and Carol Johnson (eds), The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship, Ashgate, Surrey, 2011, pp. 27–42.
2No author, ‘Not happy Nicola’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 August 2004; No author, ‘Govt to outlaw gay marriage’, ABC News, 27 May 2004; Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes, NewSouth, Sydney, 2018, pp. 16–17.
3Marcus Priest, ‘Labor supports gay bashing law’, Australian Financial Review, 2 June 2004, p. 4; Craig Clarke, ‘Wong takes up fight over gays’, The Advertiser, 2 June 2004, p. 2; Misha Schubert, ‘Labor MPs back leader’s gay compromise plan’, The Age, 2 June 2004.
4Natasha Stott Despoja, ‘Marriage Amendment Bill 2004’, Senate Hansard, 12 August 2004, p. 1034.
5Deirdre McKeown, ‘Chronology of same-sex marriage bills introduced into the federal parliament: a quick guide’, Research Paper Series, 2017–18, Parliamentary Library, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, 15 February 2018.
6No author, ‘Howard: election to be about trust’, Th
e Sydney Morning Herald, 29 August 2004.
7Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2005, p. 366.
8No author, ‘Gay rights movement welcomes Australia’s first openly gay frontbencher’, Agence France-Presse, 23 October 2004.
9Jackson Sawatan, ‘Father follows closely daughter’s rise in Australia’s politics’, Bernama Daily, 24 October 2004.
10No author, ‘Sabah-born Malaysian woman is Labor Party “new star”’, Sin Chew Daily, 24 October 2004.
11Andrew Bolt, ‘And another thing’, Sunday Herald Sun, 24 October 2004, p. 21.
12Stephen Loosley, ‘Labor must bow to the people’s verdict with grace’, Sunday Telegraph, 24 October 2004, p. 1.
13Jeremy Roberts, ‘Gay senator prepared for when it gets personal’, The Australian, 28 October 2004, p. 2.
14Maria Moscaritolo, ‘Rudd won’t stand, no word from Gillard, a surprise backer, it’s a done deal’, The Advertiser, 25 January 2005.
15Patricia Karvelas, ‘Gillard fights on against the odds’, The Australian, 25 January 2005, p. 2.
16Mark Latham, ‘No exit’, The Monthly, November 2010.
17‘Budget Strategy and Outlook 2005–06: Budget Paper No. 1’, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 10 May 2005.
18Penny Wong, ‘Transcript of doorstop interview’, Media release, 20 May 2006.
19Penny Wong, ‘Values and politics’, Public lecture at the University of Adelaide, 26 October 2006.
20Penny Wong, Reward for Effort: Meeting the Participation Challenge, discussion paper on Australia’s workforce participation issues, Australian Labor Party, November 2006.
21Julia Gillard, My Story, pp. 5–6.
22Fleur Anderson, ‘Double shocks cast a sombre mood’, Australian Financial Review, 5 December 2006.
23Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong, ‘Federal Labor to lift standards on taxpayer-funded advertising: $1.7 billion spent by Howard government’, Media release, 19 May 2007.
24Penny Wong and Kim Wilkie, ‘Transcript of doorstop interview’, Media release, 9 August 2006.
25Penny Wong, ‘Who’s been in the same chair too long?’, Media release, 21 May 2007.
26Penny Wong, ‘Transcript of doorstop interview’, Media release, 22 May 2007.
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