You can’t be what you can’t see.
On Friday 7 September 2018, Elizabeth Lee MLA spoke at the launch of Jasiri Australia about the challenges and importance of being a ‘first’.
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Author: Elizabeth Lee
Elizabeth Lee is a Liberal member of the ACT Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Kurrajong. She migrated to Australia from South Korea in 1986 when she was 7 years old and grew up in Western Sydney. She moved to Canberra at 18 to study law at the ANU and has lived and worked in Kurrajong ever since. Lee is the first Korean-Australian elected member of an Australian parliament.