Cheng Lei: Australia’s foreign minister reveals the promise she made to jailed journalist’s children

The day after Cheng arrived back in Australia after three years' detention in China, Penny Wong says she had vowed to do everything I could to bring her home'

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The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has revealed she promised the children of the formerly jailed journalist Cheng Lei to do everything I could to bring her home".

Speaking a day after Cheng returned to Melbourne after three years in detention in China accused of ill-defined security-related allegations, Wong said the Australian journalist was in extraordinarily good spirits" and was pretty tough".

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