Ken Wyatt is the new MP for Hasluck.
Australian politics is still dominating the media but hopefully a result should be known this week as Julia Gillard rejects a second vote for the Australian public.
Meanwhile a headline that has missed some of the world’s media is the fact that Australia’s House of Representatives has appointed its first Aboriginal member. Ken Wyatt took the seat for Hasluck in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
Mr Wyatt received a majority win over the Labor Party and claims that his race has nothing to do with him winning his seat: “In 50 years’ time historians and people will be analysing why Hasluck chose an indigenous candidate, and what they’ll discover is that they didn’t choose an indigenous candidate because I was indigenous.” Mr Wyatt told reporters. “They chose a person who they believed would represent the interests of everybody within Hasluck.”
However his victory was marred by hate mail sent to him which he says he was disappointed by, but declare that Australia had to move forward.
In the past two other indigenous Australians have also served in Parliament, but Mr Wyatt is the first to be elected to the House of Representatives.
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