Amid the chaos of Tuesday’s leadership spill, a political milestone risked going unnoticed.
With Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull left licking his wounds after fending off a title challenge, Greens’ Senator Mehreen Faruqi rose to give her maiden speech.
Senator Faruqi, as she is now known, became the 100th woman in the Upper House. But the occasion was momentous for another reason: she is the first Muslim woman ever to claim one of the Senate’s red chairs.
“I am very grateful to the 99 women before me who have actually forged the way for people like me,” she told SBS News on Tuesday
