Australia gets Muslim, aboriginal, youngest MPs

Among the newly elected legislators congregating for the first time at Parliament House are Australia's first Muslim lawmaker, its youngest-ever at 20-years-old and the first Aboriginal in the House of Representatives.

The new lawmakers came to the capital Thursday for their first meetings with party leaders and colleagues since August 21 elections.

The polls failed to deliver a clear majority for any party for the first time in 70 years, but the center-left Labor Party formed a minority government with the support of four outside lawmakers.

 

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