Linda Burney becomes first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's lower house.
Source: The Guardian
Australia will have the first Indigenous woman elected to the lower house of the federal parliament, with Linda Burney claiming victory in the marginal seat of Barton.
Burney, the former deputy leader of the New South Wales Labor party, called her election in the southern Sydney seat on Saturday night.
The Wiradjuri woman resigned from the NSW parliament in March and announced she was running for the federal seat of Barton. The seat was a marginal Liberal one but after redistribution became a notionally marginal Labor seat.
Burney claimed victory after 7pm on Saturday. “Wonderful, wonderful,” Burney told Sky News.
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