How can Labor reflect Australia's diversity?

Join Dr Anne Aly MP and Osmond Chiu in a discussion facilitated by Jananie Janarthana as we discuss what Labor needs to do to reflect to the cultural diversity of Australia’s population and what the failure to do so means for progressive politics.

Australia is one of the most multicultural countries in the world yet our public institutions do not represent that diversity. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, nearly one in five Australians have non-European heritage but less than one in twenty federal MPs have non-European heritage. Australia does significantly worse than comparable Westminster parliamentary democracies like Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom when it comes to representation.

There are electoral implications if parties do not engage with the diversity of the electorate. In NSW, the Coalition has made significant inroads to multicultural communities at a state level and won middle-ring multicultural seats that were once strong…