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.
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“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.
“Through her work, her choices, her courage and her deeds, she inspired and empowered me and so many others.”
Wong thanked staff at Calvary Hospital’s Mary Potter Hospice in Adelaide for their compassion while looking after her mother.
Parliamentary colleagues and the public shared their condolences.
Wong said her mother would be missed “terribly” by her friends and family.
“Mum loved me completely. And she loved her granddaughters Alexandra and Hannah beyond measure,” she said.