Only one new MP with non-European ancestry has been elected, enlarging the gulf between the proportion of Victorians from non-European backgrounds and the number of politicians who look like them.
means it has a high proportion of women, but its failure to recruit candidates from divergent cultural backgrounds to fill about a dozen vacant seats compounded the existing lack of diversity in the parliament.
This compares to the 25 per cent of Australians who come from non-European backgrounds, an estimate from athat integrates Australian Human Rights Commission data with the census, which does not specifically ask about ethnicity.
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