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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s mother has died. Wong said her mother, Jane Chapman, died on Sunday. She was a woman of “exceptional intellect and penetrating insight, of mischievous wit and endless curiosity”, Wong said on social media. “Most of all she was a woman of deep compassion and principle,” Wong said. “She gave expression to her compassion through her courage and determination for justice, qualities that have steeled me through all my life’s challenges.
They had two children, Penelope and Toby, who were both born in Malaysia. When they divorced, Chapman moved back to South Australia with her children. Toby took his own life in 2001, 10 days after his 30th birthday and on the same day Wong was elected to the senate. Wong’s father died in May 2023. Wong paid tribute to her mother at the International Women’s Day Breakfast in Adelaide in March, saying: “She showed me that my destiny was mine to shape.
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