Twenty-five years since an Indian-born MP last sat in Queensland’s parliament, candidates from one of the state’s largest immigrant communities are running for election across most parties this weekend.
Unlike in the UK, Canada and the US, fewer than a dozen members of Australia’s Indian diaspora have been elected to federal or state parliaments, or territory assemblies, apart from British citizens born in the colonial-era and after federation.
But there are doubts as to whether that will change in Saturday’s election.
Both Labor and the Liberal National Party are running…
