Newly-elected parliament faces a lack of ethnic diversity

Former Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Soutphommasane

Source: SBS

The newly-elected federal parliament may have a record number of female MPs but it is likely to have fewer MPs born overseas than the last.


The lack of ethnic diversity has sparked calls for controversial candidate citizenship requirements to be scrapped.


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