Sam Dastyari came to Australia from Iran with his parents Source: AAP
Born in a war zone, Sam Dastyari came to Australia with his activist parents in the 1980s. He went on to become a Labor Senator and the first Iranian-born person to sit in Australian Parliament.
Born in a war zone, Sam Dastyari came to Australia with his activist parents in the 1980s. He went on to become a Labor Senator and the first Iranian-born person to sit in Australian Parliament.
"The thing that just hit me, my first memory of this country is just that hot Sydney, summer sun just blowing me away. We'd come from this frozen cold winter of Iran to the Sydney summer."
