Highlights
- Senator Jana Stewart, an Indigenous Australian of the Muthi Muthi and Wamba-Wamba peoples, and Senator Fatima Payman, who is an Afghan-born Muslim are two new members of the 47th Parliament.
- For the first time, there are 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politicians in the federal parliament.
- The Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles, says people from multicultural and refugee backgrounds have told him they're excited to see people who look like them in the new parliament.
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