Ayor Makur Chuot

Ayor Makur Chuot was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)|Labor Party] member for Electoral region of [North Metropolitan|North Metropolitan region] at the 2021 [Western Australian state election|2021 state election], and as the first WA state MP of African and South Sudanese ancestry.
Prior to being elected Chuot was an accountant and international model.
Chuot and her family emigrated to Australia refugees in 2005, after her father was killed in the Second Sudanese [Civil War]. 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.