Penny Wong, Australia’s foreign minister, prefers to talk about her job, not herself. Asked what it was like to be in Washington on January 20th, listening to Donald Trump’s inaugural polemic against “woke” politics, the first gay person and first Asian-Australian to hold the office answers by drawing on a different identity. “I’m a parliamentarian,” she says, “so the peaceful transfer of power in the world’s superpower was quite a moving event.”
