Labor MP Andrew Charlton, whose electorate has the nation’s biggest Indian diaspora community, says Australians should not be hung up on the superpower’s flaws.
, has the highest concentration of Indian-Australians in the country. Seventeen per cent of his constituents were born in India and one-in-five listed Hinduism as their religion on the most recent census.Black Inc. Books
An economics adviser to then-prime minister Kevin Rudd, Charlton later became a successful business consultant and is widely regarded within Labor circles as a possible future treasurer and perhaps even prime minister. Asked if he has any concerns for the safety of Sikh activists in his community, Charlton says only that he believes the Indian diaspora is “99 per cent harmonious”.
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