Published: December 18, 2018
With no Indigenous members, less than 10% of MPs born overseas and just 40% women, how representative is the state’s democracy?
The 59th Victorian parliament is being sworn in on Wednesday and its average member is a 48-year-old Australian-born man who was educated at a religious or private school and worked in politics as a political or party staffer before being elected.
Essentially, the parliament will resemble premier Daniel Andrews, although Andrews, being ambitious, is only 46.
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