For all the “progressive” posturing of the Australian left, it was the Liberal Party who elected Australia’s first woman MP in the lower house, Dame Enid Lyons, and Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentarian, Sir Neville Bonner, and first Aboriginal cabinet minister, Ken Wyatt.
Some political observers are speculating that the Liberal Party may already be fostering Australia’s future first Aboriginal Prime Minister. Somewhat perversely, as an unintended consequence of the current PM’s blundered, divisive, “Indigenous Voice” referendum.
