Melbourne: Australian Labor Party (ALP) candidate Lisa Singh from Tasmania has become the first person of South Asian decent in Australia to enter the Australian Federal Parliament. Lisa Singh, 38, a former Minister in the ALP government in Tasmania has been elected to the Senate. She got 39, 359 votes after preferences and the Liberal candidate secured 37, 795 votes after preferences.
At the March 2010 Tasmanian state election Lisa was not returned to office. Since that time Lisa has been active establishing a support organisation for asbestos sufferers in Tasmania. She is the current CEO of Asbestos Free Tasmania Foundation. Her grandfather Ram Singh was a member of the Fiji Parliament in the 1970s.
Lisa is the mother of two teenage boys and lives in Hobart in the Denison electorate.
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