Sam Dastyari, From Iran to the Australian Senate

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Born in a war zone, Sam Dastyari came to Australia with his activist parents in the 1980s. Image: Labor Senator Sam Dastyari (AAP)


He went on to become a Labor Senator and the first Iranian-born person to sit in Australian Parliament.

 

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