Dai Le's first speech: MP shares her refugee story, likens lockdown to communist regime

New independent MP for Fowler, Dai Le, spoke passionately and emotively about her family’s settlement in Australia as refugees.
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Le wore what appeared to be a traditional áo dài (Vietnamese dress) made out of the Australian flag. The first-time parliamentarian spoke about the strict Covid lockdown conditions her western Sydney community was placed under last year, likening it to a ‘communist dictatorship’. She said her community were ‘the forgotten people, and yet we are the backbone of Australia'. Her speech was greeted with supporters in Parliament House’s public galleries clapping, shouting and chanting her name

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