@jayeless I was just looking at the #BBC , which claims that #AnthonyAlbanese will be Australia's first non Anglo-Celtic Prime Minister. Really surprises me: Canada's first PM of neither French nor British ethnicity was #JohnDiefenbaker in 1957. [0]

In #canpol both the #Conservatives and the #Liberals have long encouraged candidates from visible minorities, hoping that will give them an edge with certain groups of voters.

[0] The UK had of course #BenjamninDisraeli in 1874.