Senator Says Australian Politicians ‘Overreached’ on Foreign Policy But Supports China Virus Inquiry

Australian Sen. Penny Wong in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Dec. 2, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Australia’s shadow foreign affairs minister Senator Penny Wong (SA) said Labor supported the Coalition government’s calls for an independent inquiry into the early Wuhan outbreak of the CCP virus, in a piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 27.

But she also criticised the government’s politicians and its supporters who she said had “overreached on Australia’s foreign policy” when they criticised China to “play to their own audience.”