Ayor Makur Chuot (born 4 August 1989) was elected to the

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as a Labor Party member for North Metropolitan region at the 2021 state election, and as the first WA state MP of African and South Sudanese ancestry. Prior to being elected Chuot was an accountant and international model. Chuot and her family emigrated to Australia refugees in 2005, after her father was killed in the

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. Prior to migrating, the family had spent ten years in the

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refugee camp in Kenya. Her sister is

Akec Makur Chuot Akec Makur Chuot (born 5 September 1992) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. Chuot was born on 5 September 1992 in South Sudan, the same year her father died. She was rais ...

, an

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player for

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