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Maeve Bannister

COVID pandemic drives doctor to politics

Pandemic Michelle AnandaRajah Covid-19 Labor
Doctor and new Labor MP Michelle Ananda-Rajah has shared how the pandemic drove her to politics. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the political awakening of one of the Labor government's newest federal MPs.

A former doctor at a major Melbourne hospital, Michelle Ananda-Rajah told parliament she stopped sleeping in the first half of 2020 as she "watched healthcare workers in Italy die".

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