“There have been systemic barriers put on multicultural communities,” says Senate hopeful Wesa Chau. “And when we talk about discrimination, this is what it looks like.”
Ethnically diverse Australians are used by Labor powerbrokers to stack branches but not supported for parliamentary spots, an aspiring politician for the party has claimed.
Chau, who has unsuccessfully run for parliament and Melbourne city council, said diverse-background party members were often called on to volunteer on election day and help win local branch elections.“But when it comes to candidate selection, ethnically diverse members haven’t been nurtured,” she said, noting the Victorian Left had not selected a multicultural federal MP for 23 years.
Other candidates likely to contest include the chief of Labor women’s advocacy group Emily’s List Pamela Anderson, farmer and criminologist Nadia David, and Sorina Grasso, who is Jewish. Several senior factional figures, as well as serving and former MPs, told this masthead earlier this month that they worried about Labor’s talent pipeline and the promotion of too many former union officials to the Senate. Two Labor MPs argued that the party must identify future candidates from new parts of the community to remain relevant as its
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