Fatima Payman has earned Western Australia's sixth and final Senate seat, making her the first Afghan-Australian and the first Muslim woman in parliament to wear a hijab.
Ms Payman, a former Afghan refugee, scored this victory on World Refugee Day.
She is the state's only new senator, following the re-election of Labor senators Sue Lines and Glenn Sterle, as well as Liberal senators Michaelia Cash and Dean Smith.
Ms Payman arrived in Perth's northern suburbs as a child refugee from Afghanistan with her parents and three siblings.
Her father worked day and night as a kitchen hand, a security guard, and a taxi driver when she was young. Her mother cared for the family before starting her own small business teaching driving.
Ms Payman became an organiser for the United Workers Union after being inspired by her parents' hard work when she was younger, and after losing her father to leukaemia in 2018, she decided she wanted to represent hard-working Australians like him who struggle to earn their living.
