Ayor Makur Chuot will be WA’s first MP of African descent — but that’s just part of her story

Ayor Makur Chuot’s life now is worlds apart from where it all began — in a refugee camp in Kenya. 

Once an international model, the 31-year-old accountant is set to become Western Australia’s first MP of African descent and Australia’s first South Sudanese MP when she is sworn in next month.

She will sit in the Upper House for Labor following the party’s landslide state election victory in March. 

Born in Ethiopia, Ms Chuot and her family moved to South Sudan, only to flee to Kenya after her father was killed during a civil war in…