As reported by The Daily Telegraph,14 August 2017, quoting Senator Penelope (Penny) Wong Yin Yen:
“I was well aware when I stood for parliament I would have to renounce any rights I may have had to Malaysian citizenship and did so prior to nominating, as is confirmed in the statement by the ALP national secretary,” Ms Wong told The Daily Telegraph yesterday, yet still refused to release the documentary proof.
However, as previously reported on this blog, Penny Wing is a Malaysian citizen; she has more than mere rights to Malaysian citizenship. Penny Wong is a lawyer, and would know well enough the distinction between renouncing "any rights (she) may have had to Malaysian citizenship", and actually renouncing Malaysian citizenship.
She needed to have renounced her Malaysian citizenship, not merely renounce any rights to Malaysian citizenship. In fact there does not appear to be any mechanism within Malaysian law to renounce a right to Malaysian citizenship.
Her parents would have been required by law to register her birth at the nearest Malaysian and/or Sabah State Registry office. She is a Malaysian citizen,and has more than a mere right to Malaysian citizenship.The reason is simple.As far as Malaysia is concerned, you are either a citizen, or you are not.
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
Penny Wong:born in Malaysia to a Malaysian father ,lived as a local for 8 years ,recalls "feeling like I didn't belong (in Australia) for some time," but insists there is no prima facie evidence of Malaysian citizenship
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Senator Penny Wong has been reported to have said that she has nothing to prove for the there is no evidence of her Malaysian citizenship.
Meanwhile; from the Penny friendly SBS:
When Penny Wong moved to Australia, it was summertime and her parents had just separated.
It was 1976. She was eight years old.
“I think Australia smelled dusty,” she said. “It just looked different and smelled different and the light was different.”
“I remember the first time I jumped into the sea here, and how cold it was," she said. “Obviously, in Malaysia it’s near the equator and pretty warm there, and me thinking, 'what’s wrong with the sea?'”
But she says she remembers "feeling like I didn't belong for some time," especially at her new school.
And , as reported here before:
Penelope Wong Ying Yen, aka Senator Penny Wong, was born in Kota Kinabalu ,State Of Sabah, Federation of Malaysia. Her father Francis Wong is a Malaysian citizen,which makes Wong a Malaysian citizen by birth.
While she moved to Australia in 1976,that would not have caused the loss of her Malaysian citizenship.
While she moved to Australia in 1976,that would not have caused the loss of her Malaysian citizenship.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Senator Penny Wong born in Malaysia,and born a Malaysian citizen-Has she officially renounced Malaysian citizenship, and can we see proof?
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Penelope Wong Ying Yen, aka Senator Penny Wong, was born in Kota Kinabalu ,State Of Sabah, Federation of Malaysia. Her father Francis Wong is a Malaysian citizen,which makes Wong a Malaysian citizen by birth.
While she moved to Australia in 1976,that would not have caused the loss of her Malaysian citizenship.
Many Malaysians who later in life took up citizenship of other countries assumed that by doing so Malaysian citizenship was lost automatically, but this is not the case.
There is ,provided for in the Malaysian Constitution and arising laws a process which requires citizens who wish to renounce their citizenship to make a formal application to do so.It is up to the Malaysian Government to determine if the application should be accepted.
If the Government determines that the application is to be accepted, then the applicant is issued a formal notice of that fact,with a copy of his or her Malaysian birth certificate marked with words in Malay and/or English ,"No longer a citizen of Malaysia (paraphrase)".
None of this has ever been provided the public in the case of Penny Wong. Indeed the question has never been put. We are simply expected to accept that Wong is not a citizen of Malaysia, despite the facts.
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Penelope Wong Ying Yen, aka Senator Penny Wong, was born in Kota Kinabalu ,State Of Sabah, Federation of Malaysia. Her father Francis Wong is a Malaysian citizen,which makes Wong a Malaysian citizen by birth.
While she moved to Australia in 1976,that would not have caused the loss of her Malaysian citizenship.
Many Malaysians who later in life took up citizenship of other countries assumed that by doing so Malaysian citizenship was lost automatically, but this is not the case.
There is ,provided for in the Malaysian Constitution and arising laws a process which requires citizens who wish to renounce their citizenship to make a formal application to do so.It is up to the Malaysian Government to determine if the application should be accepted.
If the Government determines that the application is to be accepted, then the applicant is issued a formal notice of that fact,with a copy of his or her Malaysian birth certificate marked with words in Malay and/or English ,"No longer a citizen of Malaysia (paraphrase)".
None of this has ever been provided the public in the case of Penny Wong. Indeed the question has never been put. We are simply expected to accept that Wong is not a citizen of Malaysia, despite the facts.
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