Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will be in KL to lecture Malaysians on Australia and South East Asian security- Will she address her apparent disapproval of UK-Malaysia defence ties
by Ganesh Sahathevan Penny Wong and Rory Medcalf AM will be speaking in Kuala Lumpur on 10 July 2025. They now have an opportunity to explain to Malaysians how Penny Wong 's demanding that UK apologise for its colonial past , despite its long standing defence ties with Malaysia , Brunei and Singaopre, is "actually a geopolitical play" intended to craft a new scaffolding for AUKUS. The existing "scaffolding" does not, it seems, matter: Rory Medcalf AM also makes reference to the impoverished circumstances of Penny Wong 's Sabah Hakka-Cantonese family , which was apparently mistreated by some English family (Penny says her grandmother worked for an English family as a maid, after WW2). https://lnkd.in/gwuRcxNJ TO BE READ WITH The UK confronted its colonial past in Malaysia in 1988 with a USD1.95 Billion arms deal, a contract to construct the Pergau Dam, and other deals which were concluded when Penny Wong was at uni, playing undergraduate politics -...