Labor Senator Jana Stewart is pushing her party to pick 'culturally diverse candidates' under a quota plan to boost the number of parliamentarians from non-English speaking backgrounds, says Sky News host James Macpherson.
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Labor Senator Jana Stewart is pushing her party to pick “culturally diverse candidates” under a quota plan to boost the number of parliamentarians from non-English speaking backgrounds, says Sky News host James Macpherson. “Once you abandon the principle of merit, there’s nothing to stop parliament becoming little more than a university campus identity seminar run amok,” Mr Macpherson said.
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