Category: People
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In Conversation: Asian-Australians in Politics
Prior to the 2022 Federal Election, AAP spoke to emerging and established Asian Australian politicians to talk about how their cultures and identities have shaped the way they’ve interacted and influenced politics. Not often do we talk about our upbringings and how that’s affected the way we’ve interacted with the political system in Australia. From war…
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Rachael Jacobs
Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? My family is culturally Indian. My dad was born in Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh, and my mother was born in Lucknow, which is in the north of India. So that’s where…
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Sheneli Dona
Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? I’m Sri Lankan – my parents migrated to Australia in 2000 with my sister and I. at the time I was only 18 months. My dad got a job here – better opportunities. Prior…
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Sujan Selven
சுஜன் Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? I am Tamil from Sri Lanka, I moved to Australia when I was 15 years old and went to high school and then went to Territory College. I did my Marketing and Business…
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Sujit Mathew
Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? My cultural background – I’m Southeast Asian, my family is from India. I’m from a pure conservative catholic Indian family. As kids, we used to go to church almost everyday and specifically Sundays as…
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Jenny Leong
梁珍妮 Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? I was born in Adelaide in South Australia, and you know, in colloquial, friendly circles I am known as an ABC– so, an Australian-Born Chinese. It’s always a bit of an amusing thing…
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Mehreen Faruqi
مہرین Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become a politician? I grew up in Lahore in Punjab in Pakistan. Lahoris are very proud of who they are. There’s a saying which is very popular in Lahore: “Those who haven’t seen Lahore haven’t been born…
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Penny Wong
黄英贤 Can you tell us about your cultural background, and where you were before you decided to enter politics? I was born in Malaysia and my father was Malaysian-Chinese. His dad was Cantonese and his mother, my grandmother, was Hakka. My dad had a scholarship to study at Adelaide University, where he met my mum,…
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Chetan Sahai
चेतन सहाय Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? Both parents are of Indian descent, my father is from Bihar and my mother is from Sindh. My grandparents had to flee during the partition, there was lots of fighting and riots…
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Apurva Shukla
Can you tell us a bit about your cultural background and where you were before deciding to become/run as a politician? I graduated last year – I studied a degree at UNSW and I’m now working in the IT sector. I was born in India and came to Australia when I was 1. Like so…
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