Peter Hon Jung Wong AM (Chinese: 黃肇強) (born 12 October 1942) is a Chinese-born Australian politician.
His family briefly settled in Borneo, where his father provided free medical care to the poor, but they later moved on to Sydney, Australia.
When the Liberal Party continued to insist on preferencing Hanson, Wong joined a number of Chinese community leaders in campaigning against the preference decision.
[6][7] His remarks received media attention, which was further amplified when Helen Sham-Ho, a Chinese Australian Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, also resigned from the party several days later.
However, he was persuaded to look at starting a separate political party with the specific aim of opposing Hanson and promoting multiculturalism.
While the Unity Party was notably liberal on race issues, Wong's conservatism was evident in their policies against abortion and voluntary euthanasia.
This caused significant fallout for Wong and the Unity Party, and he subsequently polled only 1% of the vote on election day.
His election with such a low proportion of the vote - along with two others who gained less than 1% - caused some controversy and sparked a major overhaul of the state's electoral laws.
He attempted to minimise the influence of One Nation-turned-independent MLC David Oldfield, who argued for the elimination of all forms of government support for multiculturalism.
Wong had a number of major successes while in Parliament such as achieving the inquiry into Kariong Juvenile Justice Centre, stopping the major grocery companies expanding into drug sales as chemists, and was instrumental in bringing about the moratorium on genetically modified crop trials in NSW.