Penny Wong, who was born in Malaysia, became Australia’s first Asian-Australian foreign minister after the 2022 elections. - AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star
SYDNEY: One of the most closely watched races in Australia’s election on May 3 will be in Sydney, where Labour candidate Tu Le, a lawyer, is trying to win the seat of Fowler from independent MP Dai Le, a former journalist.
It is no surprise that both candidates share Vietnamese heritage. According to the last census in 2021, 19 per cent of the seat’s 173,000 residents have Vietnamese ancestry, making them the largest ethnic group, followed by Chinese Australians (13 per cent), and those of Australian ancestry (nine per cent).
