When Ali France lost her 19-year-old-son Henry to leukaemia last year, it was a tragic chapter in a life which had already seen her lose a leg, and nearly another son, in an accident in a suburban shopping centre car park.
But when she became the first person in Australian history to defeat a sitting opposition leader in a federal election at her third attempt at the Brisbane seat of Dickson on Saturday night, it was another moment in which the world champion para-athlete triumphed despite unimaginable adversity.
