Dai Le likens Covid lockdowns in western Sydney to ‘communist dictatorship’ in first speech

Independent MP for Fowler says her community was neglected and abandoned by the major parties' as she spoke of her family's arrival in Australia as refugees

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New federal independent MP Dai Le compared the Covid lockdowns placed on her western Sydney electorate by the New South Wales Coalition government to actions of a communist dictatorship", saying her constituents were forgotten people".

Le also took a swipe at former senator Kristina Keneally, who she defeated at the May election to win the formerly safe Labor seat of Fowler.

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