Ayor Makur Chuot

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] 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] This article about an Australian Labor Party member of the Parliament of Western Australia is a stub.