Ayor Makur Chuot
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Ayor Makur Chuot | |
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| Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for North Metropolitan | |
| Assumed office 22 May 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 August 1989 |
| Party | Labor |
| Relatives | Akec Makur Chuot (sister) |
| Occupation | Accountant • model |
Ayor Makur Chuot (born 4 August 1989)[1] was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Labor Party member for North Metropolitan region at the 2021 state election,[2] and as the first WA state MP of African and South Sudanese ancestry.[3]
Prior to being elected Chuot was an accountant and international model.[3]
Chuot and her family emigrated to Australia refugees in 2005, after her father was killed in the Second Sudanese Civil War.[3] Prior to migrating, the family had spent ten years in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Her sister is Akec Makur Chuot, an AFLW player for Richmond.[4]
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- South Sudanese emigrants to Australia
- Australian models of South Sudanese descent
- 1989 births
- 21st-century Australian women politicians
- Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia stubs