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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. Praba Maheswaran has the story in Tamil, written for SBS News.


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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. Praba Maheswaran has the story in Tamil, written for SBS News.



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