Penny Wong will be granted powers to decide if the Governor-General can designate foreign state entities as state sponsors of terrorism; Penny Wong consulting Anwar Ibrahim who supports HAMAS, about her Palestine policies, suggests that Penny Wong must not be granted that power

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

From the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS)  website:

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has commenced a review of the Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Bill 2025 (the Bill).

The Bill would

• create a new legislative framework that would enable the Governor-General to list foreign state entities as state sponsors of terrorism on the advice of the Australian Federal Police Minister, with agreement from the Foreign Affairs Minister
• create new offences which would criminalise conduct engaged in by these entities, as well as conduct engaged in by persons who would seek to assist or support these activities
• provide for appropriate defences, for example for persons who are required by law to engage with a listed entity or engage with an entity for a legitimate purpose
• make amendments to various other Commonwealth Acts to apply the law enforcement powers and other policy tools that are available in response to, or targeted at the prevention of, terrorist acts to the new provisions concerning state sponsored terrorism.

While it is common if not usual practise to seek the  agreement of the Foreign Affairs Minister in matters that involve foreign entities, Wong's conduct in consulting 

Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim about recognising a Palestinian state  despite Anwar's support for HAMAS, suggests that there foreign affairs and local law enforcement are areas where the priorities may be in conflict. The Bill is  useful and necessary, and it should only require the advice of the Australian Federal Police Minister. It should not require the agreement of the Foreign Affairs Minister.

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Friday, April 12, 2024

Penny Wong consulted Malaysia about recognising a Palestinian state -Malaysia does not recognise Israel's right to exist, Malaysian government and media's word for Israel is "Zionist Regime"

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                 Penny Wong and Anwar Ibrahim

As reported by the AFR:

Foreign Minister Penny Wong canvassed extensively with a series of international counterparts, including UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and ministers from key Muslim countries before announcing Australia could potentially recognise Palestinian statehood.

Over the past month or so, Senator Wong has spoken to foreign ministers from Egypt and Jordan – the first two Arab countries to recognise neighbouring Israel – as well as a slew of South-East Asian ministers at Melbourne’s ASEAN summit, including Malaysia and Indonesia, two big international champions of the Palestinian cause.

Malaysia's does not recognise Israel's right to exist. That determination is reflected in  Malaysian government and media statements in which  even the  word  Israel is forbidden. The word  "Zionist Regime" is used instead.

As reported previously, Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim (who effectively runs the government, over-riding his ministers) has insisted that he will always support HAMAS. 

Wong cannot but be at least aware that her two state proposal really means the end of Israel as it currently exists.

Friday, April 12, 2024

Albanese and Wong may fantasise about a Gaza , Palestine without HAMAS , but HAMAS will be active in Asia, and Australia - In 2019 Hamas said considers Malaysia its gateway to Asia

by Ganesh Sahathevan



Labor ignored warning of UNRWA links to Hamas -The Australian 

As reported by the AFR:

Foreign Minister Penny Wong canvassed extensively with a series of international counterparts, including UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and ministers from key Muslim countries before announcing Australia could potentially recognise Palestinian statehood.

Over the past month or so, Senator Wong has spoken to foreign ministers from Egypt and Jordan – the first two Arab countries to recognise neighbouring Israel – as well as a slew of South-East Asian ministers at Melbourne’s ASEAN summit, including Malaysia and Indonesia, two big international champions of the Palestinian cause.

Meanwhile in Malaysia 

"I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue"-Anwar ibrahim

Hamas considers Malaysia its gateway to Asia

Australia's position on Israel is now in alignment with that of HAMAS supporting, Israel denying Malaysia - Penny Wong consulted Malaysia about recognising a Palestinian state, issues concerning Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong's Malaysian connections, questions about her Malaysian citizenship require re-examination

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                                       

Hamas Terror Cell Received Advanced Training in Malaysia

The Guardian and others have reported, with regards the UN General Assembly vote on Tuesday , 3 December 2024:

Australia has split with the US and voted with 156 other countries at the UN to demand the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.

The vote marks Australia’s return to the position for the first time in more than two decades.

Australia's position is now in alignment with that of Malaysia,which is unapologetic about its support for HAMAS. As previously reported, Australia's Foreign MinisterPenny Wong consulted Malaysia about recognising a Palestinian state. It is in Australia's national interest to determine who Wong represents, and therefore  issues concerning Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong's Malaysian connections, questions about her Malaysian citizenship require re-examination. As previously, reported, Wong and her Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's pro-Palestine, pro-HAMAS decisions may empower jihadis against Australia.

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Penny Wong has not renounced her Malaysian citizenship, only "any rights (she) may have had to Malaysian citizenship "

by Ganesh Sahathevan 


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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REFERENCE 

realpolitikasia

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.

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REFERENCE 

realpolitikasia

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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Friday, March 15, 2024

Australia's decision to resume funding UNRWA must be viewed in the context of Foreign Minister Penny Wong's contact with a Malaysian intelligence officer, and Malaysia's defiant support for HAMAS

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

 Foreign Minister Penny Wong meets Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim in Kuala Lumpur on 27th February 2023

Thus spake Australia's Foreign Minister Penny  Wong, justifying her decision to restore funding to the HAMAS linked UNRWA:
"the best available current advice from agencies and the Australian government lawyers is that UNRWA is not a terrorist organisation........"
https://lnkd.in/gDxfZnnh

Meanwhile, Wong has still provided no explanation for her contact with  a Malaysian intelligence officer.This fact is especially relevant in the matter of Australia's UNRWA funding given  Malaysian Rime Minister Anwar Ibrahim  defiant support for HAMAS.:

 "I said that we, as a policy, have a relationship with Hamas from before and this will continue"-Anwar ibrahim's admission renews concerns about Malaysia's support for jihadis and Anwar and his IIIT's funding of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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Detail in Al-Jazeera interview with hitman Sirul Azhar compared with information on Malaysian High Commission Canberra website suggests that Penny Wong contacted an undeclared Malaysian intelligence officer -Wong and DFAT have not denied Sirul's statement to Al-Jazzera 

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Al-Jazeera reported that hitman Sirul Azhar had meetings with  a Malaysian police intelligence officer at Malaysia's "embassy" in Canberra.In the interview  Sirul  describes meetings with a male officer (see screenshots above).

However, the declared Malaysian police intelligence officer at the embassy(actually high commission) is quite likely  Mdm. Szabrenna Pou Abdullah , a long serving police officer who held the rank of Deputy Superintendent Of Police (DSP) in 2020, who is designated First Secretary.

It is therefore likely that Wong's reported contact was with an undeclared Malaysian intelligence officer, and that raises even more serious questions about Wong's conduct in office. As Foreign Minister Wong is also the Minister in charge of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS).

 Three weeks have passed since Sirul's revelations but Wong and DFAT have yet to issue any comment with regards Sirul's statement to Al-Jazzera.

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Friday, November 24, 2023

Malaysian hitman Sirul Azhar Umar tells Al-Jazeera Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong spoke to a Malaysian Police intelligence officer at the Malaysian y High Commission in Canberra, Australia - Very serious allegations against Penny Wong, complicated by her connections to Malaysia

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Malaysian hitman Sirul Azhar Umar says Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong spoke to a Malaysian Police intelligence officer at the Malaysian y High Commission in Canberra, Australia to determine if Sirul was a danger to the Canberra community.

Any Minister of State, even a Foreign Minister, who has personal connections with a foreign intelligence officer should be considered a threat to national security.

Very serious allegations against Penny Wong, complicated by her connections to Malaysia.


See from 19:30 onwards

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2023/11/24/murder-in-malaysia-world-exclusive-interview-with-sirul-azhar-umar

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Posted by ganesh sahathevan at 5:05 AM 

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