The woman who unseated Peter Dutton on her third tilt at the seat of Dickson says her “epic journey” into Parliament is neither a sad nor happy story, but a very human one.
Ali France led the speeches from new MPs on Tuesday evening, the first of 20 freshman members of Labor’s caucus who will introduce themselves to Parliament this week.
In a moving speech, she laid out her deep Labor roots and the struggles she has faced, including losing a leg in 2011 and her son Henry dying of leukaemia in early 2024.
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