Kenyan-born lawyer Lucy Gichuhi was warmly welcomed by colleagues as she took her seat in the Senate on Tuesday, sharing a kiss on the cheek with Pauline Hanson. One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts and Employment Minister Michaelia Cash also embraced the South Australian politician after she took her oath. 'I am honoured and humbled to be sworn in today as the first-ever person of black African descent in the Australian parliament,' she wrote in a brief post on Facebook. Kenyan-born lawyer Lucy Gichuhi during her swearing-in as Australia's first African member of federal parliament. His former Family First party has since merged with the new Australian Conservatives party, launched by Liberal party defector Cory Bernardi.

Source: The Star May 09, 2017 10:41 UTC