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Australia's diversity a mark of pride, says Penny Wong

Penny Wong says the discrimination she experienced as a child made her determined to succeed. (Supplied by in the Media Pr/AAP PHOTOS)

It's hard to think vilification could inspire something positive but it just made eight-year-old Penny Wong determined to shine.

As a immigrant child growing up Adelaide, she was the first Asian Australian pupil to enrol at Coromandel Valley Public School and the first Asian some of the other kids had ever seen.

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