53Kevin Rudd, The PM Years, p. 539.
54Benjamin Law, Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal, Quarterly Essay 67, 2017, p. 7.
55Samantha Maiden, ‘Voyage of the damned’, The Advertiser, 1 September 2013, p. 8 and Samantha Maiden, ‘Loose rein on Rudd’s campaign’, The Advertiser, 8 September 2013.
56ibid.
57Laurie Oakes, ‘Rudd’s big blunder ensures Labor’s number is up’, The Mercury, 31 August 2013, p. 34.
58Tony Walker, ‘The Rudd experiment has failed’, Australian Financial Review, 31 August 2013, p. 16.
59Sarah Martin, ‘Farrell loss ignites a bitter factional brawl’, The Australian, 9 September 2013, p. 4.
60Sarah Martin, ‘Wong blamed for “not trying hard enough”’, The Australian, 12 September 2013, p. 6.
61Penny Wong, ‘Inside words from a brutal campaign’, The Advertiser, 18 July 2016, p. 21.
62‘South Australia’, in ‘Senate results by state, 2016 federal election’, AEC Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission, 5 August 2016.
63Penny Wong quoted in Natalie Whiting, ‘The Nick Xenophon Team could become a new political force’, 7.30, ABC-TV, 9 June 2016.
64Sabra Lane, ‘Wong says Labor needs to put more resources into winning Senate seats’, The World Today, ABC Radio, 17 September 2013.
12: ARRIVAL
1Bill Shorten, ‘Statement to the Labor campaign rally’, Box Hill Town Hall, Melbourne, 29 April 2019.
2No author, ‘Government seizes on Beazley slip’, AAP, 20 April 2006.
3Mark Kenny, ‘Report card’, The Advertiser, 20 December 2008, p. 81.
4Lenore Taylor, ‘The minister of cool’, p. 12.
5No author, ‘Cathy Freeman is Australia’s most admired woman’, PR Newswire Asia, 11 October 2011.
6No author, ‘That eyebrow tho’, BuzzFeed Australia, 25 October 2015.
7James Jeffrey, ‘Strewth: brows beaten’, The Australian, 18 October 2016, p. 11.
8Amy Remeikis, ‘Penny Wong: the politician you really don’t want to cross during an Estimates hearing’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October 2016.
9Brigid Delaney, ‘Julia Gillard the movie: who would you cast’, The Guardian, 8 November 2013.
10Kaz Cooke, Twitter, 27 February 2018, https://twitter.com/reallykazcooke/status/968673806293221376
11Quoted in Crikey, ‘Tips and rumours’, 22 June 2017.
12No author, ‘George Brandis tells Penny Wong she is becoming hysterical’, AAP, 11 August 2015.
13Amy Remeikis, ‘Penny Wong’.
14Rory Callinan, ‘Had training for this? Hands up’, The Australian, 31 May 2017.
15Penny Wong, ‘Questions without notice: Racial Discrimination Act’, Senate Hansard, 24 March 2014, p. 1797.
16Henry Martyn Lloyd, The Drum, ABC-TV, 22 April 2014 and Henry Belot, ‘George Brandis takes aim at Penny Wong’, ABC News, 13 February 2017.
17Penny Wong, ‘Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2017’, Senate Hansard, 28 March 2017, p. 2352.
18Penny Wong, ‘Speech to the Chifley Research Centre’, 3 November 2013.
19Katharine Murphy, ‘Penny Wong’s composure cracked in a moment of relief too big to be contained’, The Guardian, 15 November 2017.
20Chris Uhlmann, ‘Labor’s Senate leader defends budget attacks’, AM, Radio National, 22 May 2014.
21Penny Wong, ‘Australia’s future is in the world – and there is no turning back’, Speech at the Economic and Social Outlook Conference, Melbourne, 3 July 2014.
22Penny Wong, ‘Tackling global climate change from Copenhagen to Paris and COP21’, Speech at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, 17 November 2015.
23Penny Wong, ‘Speech to the Australian Fabians Forum’, Melbourne, 13 June 2015.
24Phillip Coorey, ‘ChAFTA: China free trade deal to pass after Labor deal’, Australian Financial Review, 21 October 2015.
25Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, The Turnbull Gamble, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne, 2016, Chapter 3.
26Anne Hyland, ‘Team Shorten’, Australian Financial Review, 14 May 2016.
27Penny Wong, Twitter, 17 May 2013, https://twitter.com/senatorwong/status/335183161954807808?lang=en
28Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes.
29Penny Wong, ‘Maiden speech’.
30Penny Wong, ‘Plebiscite (Same-Sex Marriage Bill) 2016’, Senate Hansard, 7 November 2016, p. 1882.
31Penny Wong, ‘Why I am proud to march at my first Mardi Gras’, The Guardian, 6 March 2014.
32Michael McGuire, ‘Senator’s Mardi Gras debut’, The Advertiser, 3 March 2014, p. 12.
33Penny Wong in Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy (eds), From the Heart: A Collection from Women of Letters, Viking, Melbourne, 2015 (first read aloud at a Women of Letters event on 25 November 2013).
34No author, ‘China’s emissions reductions aren’t a gigantic landmark’, The Australian, 19 November 2014, p. 15.
35No author, ‘Australian defence minister back-paddles on canoe comment’, Agence France-Presse, 26 November 2014 and No author, ‘Government treating people like mugs’, AAP, 23 November 2014.
36No author, ‘Pyne determined to continue fight on unis’, AAP, 3 December 2014.
37May Slater, ‘Penny Wong announces she is expecting her second child with partner Sophie’, Daily Mail, 6 December 2014.
38Paul Millar, ‘2014 Crikeys: arsehat, person of the year and sexiest pollies’, Crikey, 19 December 2014.
39Deirdre McKeown, ‘Chronology of same-sex marriage bills introduced into the federal parliament’.
40Emily Crane, ‘Senator Wong and partner announce the arrival of their second child’, Daily Mail, 8 April 2015.
41Quoted in Natalie Whiting, The World Today, ABC Radio, 5 June 2015.
42No author, ‘Labor transformed – almost’, The Canberra Times, 28 July 2015.
43Penny Wong, ‘Speech to the Australian Labor Party Conference’, 26 July 2015.
44Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes, p. 127.
45Rob Taylor, ‘Australia’s Abbott under fire after gay marriage vote blocked’, The Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2015.
46Peter Hartcher, ‘He sold everything he believed in: the price Turnbull paid to become prime minister’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March 2019.
47Leadership debate, ABC-TV, 17 June 2016.
48Penny Wong, Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture, 21 June 2016.
49ibid.; Penny Wong, ‘It’s time’, The Monthly, February 2016; Penny Wong, Frank Walker Memorial Lecture, 17 May 2017.
50Penny Wong, ‘Plebiscite Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2016’.
51Penny Wong, ‘It’s time’.
52ibid.
53Penny Wong, Frank Walker Memorial Lecture.
54Penny Wong, Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture.
55Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes, p. 123.
56Penny Wong, Senate Hansard, 15 February 2017.
57Penny Wong, ‘Exposure Draft of the Marriage Amendment (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill Select Committee’, Senate Hansard, 15 February 2017, p. 1034.
58Lane Sainty, ‘“Historic agreement” moves the marriage equality debate forward’, BuzzFeed, 15 February 2017.
59Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes, pp. 204–05.
60Katharine Murphy, ‘Penny Wong’s composure cracked in a moment of relief too big to be contained’.
61ibid.
62Penny Wong, ‘Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017’, Senate Hansard, 16 November 2017.
63Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes, p. 279.
64Peter Hartcher, ‘The five key lessons to emerge from the same-sex marriage result’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 2017.
65Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson, Yes Yes Yes, p. 226.
13: A DANGEROUS PLACE
1Henry Belot, ‘Election 2019: Scott Morrison says “I h
ave always believed in miracles” as Coalition retains power’, ABC News, 19 May 2019.
2Guardian Australia, ‘Penny Wong endorses Anthony Albanese’, YouTube, 21 May 2019.
3Katharine Murphy, ‘Adani protest echoes in void as parliament without a compass sets sail’, The Guardian, 2 July 2019.
4Fran Kelly, ‘“Scott Morrison is standing in the way”: Penny Wong on Coalition tax cuts’, RN Breakfast, ABC Radio National, 1 July 2019.
5Penny Wong, ‘Australian values, Australia’s interests – foreign policy under a Shorten Labor government’, Speech at the Lowy Institute, Sydney, 1 May 2019.
6ibid.
7See Hugh White, Power Shift, Quarterly Essay 39, 2010; Hugh White, Without America: Australia in the New Asia, Quarterly Essay 68, 2017; Hugh White, ‘The United States or China: “We don’t have to choose”’, in Mark Beeson and Shahar Hamerri (eds), Navigating the New International Disorder: Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 93–108; Hugh White, How to Defend Australia, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2019.
8Allan Gyngell and Sam Roggeveen, ‘A dialogue on Australian foreign policy past and future’, Speech at the Lowy Institute, 31 May 2017.
9Interview with Tony Jones, Q&A, ABC-TV, 8 July 2019.
10Fergus Hunter, ‘Election 2016: Shorten’s description of Donald Trump as “barking mad” draws ire of Malcolm Turnbull’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May 2016.
11Michael Brissenden, ‘Labor and Coalition share “very similar” approach to foreign policy: Penny Wong’, AM, ABC Radio, 27 July 2016, and Brendan Nicholson, ‘We must think global: Wong’, The Australian, 30 July 2016, p. 6.
12Katharine Murphy, ‘After the US result the instinct of Australia’s politicians was to soothe. That says a lot’, The Guardian, 9 November 2016.
13Penny Wong, ‘Our alliances need an update’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 November 2016, p. 19.
14Evan Vucci, ‘Updated: Donald Trump’, The Australian, 16 November 2016.
15Penny Wong, ‘Australian values, Australia’s interests’.
16Penny Wong, ‘Foreign policy in a time of disruption’, Address at the Global Heads of Mission Meeting, Canberra, 29 March 2017.
17Penny Wong, ‘Australia’s national interests in a time of disruption’, Speech at the Lowy Institute, Sydney, 6 July 2017; Penny Wong, ‘Australian values in a time of disruption’, Griffith University’s Asia Institute, Brisbane, 3 August 2017; Penny Wong, ‘Australian values, Australia’s interests’.
18Penny Wong, ‘Australian values in a time of disruption’.
19Penny Wong, ‘Australia’s national interests in a time of disruption’; Penny Wong, ‘Australian values in a time of disruption’.
20Penny Wong, ‘FutureAsia: engaging with China’, Australian Institute of International Affairs annual conference, Canberra, 2017; Penny Wong, ‘Australia and the US in the age of disruption’, Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership, Melbourne, 22 November 2017.
21Penny Wong, ‘Peace and prosperity in a time of disruption’, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, 24 January 2018.
22Penny Wong, ‘Australia’s national interests in a time of disruption’.
23Penny Wong, ‘FutureAsia’.
24Penny Wong, ‘Managing the Australia–China relationship’, 2018 Outlook Conference, 12 October 2018.
25Penny Wong, ‘Australian values, Australia’s interests’.
26Ben Otto, ‘Indonesia’s Widodo wades into the South China Sea dispute’, The Wall Street Journal, 23 June 2016, and Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, ‘Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s trip to South China Sea islands a message to Beijing, says minister’, The Straits Times, 23 June 2016.
27Ben Packham, ‘US ambassador’s message for Morrison: embrace power role in the Pacific’, The Australian, 2 July 2019.
28Brad Norington, ‘The Left’s right man’, Weekend Australian, 23 May 2019.
29Shannon Molloy, ‘The power four: inside Bill Shorten’s tight and trusted inner circle’, news.com.au, 21 April 2019.
30No author, ‘Penny Wong and Jordan Steele-John celebrated for political leadership’, The McKinnon Prize in Political Leadership, March 2019.
31Michael Koziol, ‘“She’s quite remarkable”: Penny Wong awarded major prize for political leadership’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2019.
32Penny Wong, ‘McKinnon Prize in Political Leadership Oration’, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 29 March 2019.
33Penny Wong and Mathias Cormann, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Senate Hansard, 4 April 2019, pp. 30, 50.
34Mark Powell, ‘Ten more reasons Labor lost the unlosable election’, The Spectator Australia, 23 May 2019.
INTERVIEWS
Unless otherwise referenced, information and quotations in this book are sourced from the interviews listed below. There were an additional eight interviews conducted on the understanding that the subjects would not be identified.
Albanese, Anthony, 29 September 2018.
Behm, Allan, 15 June 2019.
Bennett, Dascia, 10 July 2018.
Bolkus, Nick, 28 March 2018.
Boswell, Lois, 14 December 2018.
Butler, Mark, 2 May 2018, 15 May 2018, 10 July 2018.
Durkin, Anthony, 29 May 2018.
Evans, Gareth, 21 June 2019.
Faulkner, John, 21 November 2018.
Frater, Don, 10 July 2018.
Garnaut, Ross, 27 June 2018.
Georganas, Steve, 7 March 2019.
Grant, Shane, 27 March 2018.
Greentree, James, 4 April 2018.
Gyngell, Alan, 31 January 2019.
Hamilton, Andrew, 21 March 2018.
Hannon, Peter, 7 March 2019.
Jackson, Sharryn, 14 March 2019.
Johnson, Caroline, 7 March 2019.
Karzis, George, 25 March 2018.
Lamb, Andrew, 20 March 2018.
Lawrence, Carmen, 10 May 2018.
Macklin, Jenny, 4 June 2018.
Milne, Christine, 12 April 2019.
Ogiers, Richard, 20 February 2018.
Olenich, John, 1 August 2018, 8 August 2018, 12 September 2018, 4 December 2018.
Pedler, Kim, 20 March 2018.
Penberthy, David, 9 May 2018.
Schacht, Chris, 21 March 2018.
Slattery, Maryanne, 27 May 2019.
Stilgherrian, 19 March 2019.
Wakefield, Wendy, 19 January 2018.
Weatherill, Jay, 11 July 2018.
White, Hugh, 31 January 2019.
Wong, Penny, 4 September 2018 (preliminary conversation regarding cooperation), 12 December 2018, 13 December 2018, 6 February 2019, 7 February 2019, 7 March 2019, 9 July 2019.
Yeadon, Kim, 15 May 2018.
Yuan, Mel, 15 May 2018.
Index
Abbott, Tony (former prime minister) 48, 194–5, 205–6, 209, 220, 226, 232, 238–9, 244, 249, 253, 256, 265–6, 272, 275
Abbott government 54, 168, 171, 183, 187, 194, 262–3, 271
ABC funding 271
ABC-TV Insiders 142, 162
‘The Adjournment Debate’ 141
ABC-TV Lateline 179, 247
ABC-TV News 213
ABC-TV Q&A 227, 230, 238–9, 288, 293, 303, 317
ABC Radio 56, 184, 242
ABC Radio National Breakfast 287
ABC Radio National PM 162
ABC-TV series Kitchen Cabinet 32 see also Annabel Crabb (journalist); ‘Toby’s Fish’
ABC-TV The Drum 234
Aboriginal land rights 33
Aboriginal people 10, 276
Adani coal mine (Qld) 86
Adelaide Casino 103
Adelaide Central Market 52, 142
Adelaide Central Mission 41
Adelaide Convention Centre 178
Adelaide Trades Hall 59
Adelaide University Council 50
Adelaide University Liberal Club 54
Adelaide University Union 47–50, 55, 63–4, 6
7, 85
African National Congress 56
Agence France-Presse 151
AIDS Action Committee 58
Ajani, Judith 86, 94
Albanese, Anthony 3, 6, 67, 127, 134, 144–5, 161, 214–15, 228, 236–7, 243, 249–50, 252, 255–7, 266, 268, 273, 286, 307, 315–16
Alberici, Emma (ABC presenter) 238, 243, 247
Alexandra Tian Chen (Penny’s daughter) xi, 126, 239–41, 271–2, 280–2, 285, 288
Allouache, Sophie xi, 126, 169–70, 233, 239–40, 268, 270–1, 281, 284 see also Bachelor of Arts; Department of Human Services; South Australian Department of Health
anti-racism 57, 85
ANZUS Treaty 300–1
Arbib, Mark 208
Arnold, Lynn 79, 82
Asian immigration 56–7
‘Asianisation of Australia’ rally 84
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 270, 289
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 265, 289
asylum seekers 115–17, 121, 146 see also refugees
Australia Institute 191
Australian Building and Construction Commission 276
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 279
Australian Centre on China in the World (ANU) 290
Australian Democrats 113, 129
Australian Education Union 102
Australian Electoral Commission 137
Australian Family Association 234
Australian Government Workers’ Union (Miscellaneous Workers’ Union) 69
Australian Greens 168, 183, 201, 203–6, 211, 216–17, 227, 229, 238, 246, 263–4, 278
Australian Industry Group 200
Australian Journal of Family Therapy 41
Australian Labor Party ix, 3, 49, 52, 59, 61–2, 70, 73–5, 85–6, 88, 93, 99, 127, 130–1, 133, 145–8, 150–4, 158–9, 168, 191, 218, 224–7
Australian Labor Party conferences 131, 230–6, 248, 271–2
Australian Labor Party factions 134, 135, 170, 263
the Bolkus Left 76–8, 83, 98, 108, 116, 138
Catholic conservatives 73, 75, 145
Centre Left 49, 59, 70, 74–5, 78–9, 102, 106, 108–9, 111–12, 131, 249
and factional politics 73–4
Left faction ix, 3, 49, 52, 59, 70, 74–9, 83, 102, 106–7, 109–11, 128, 131, 135–6, 138, 215, 231, 235–7, 248, 254–5, 262, 273, 308
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