Dai Le

Dai Trang Le (Vietnamese: Lê Trang Đài)[1][2] (born c. 1968) is an Australian politician currently serving as the deputy mayor of the City of Fairfield in New South Wales. She represented Cabravale Ward between 2012 and 2021 before changes to ward boundaries led her to contest the newly created Fairfield/Cabravale Ward since the 2021 NSW local government election. Le arrived in Australia in 1979 as a refugee of the Vietnam War after fleeing Saigon in April 1975 and spending 4 years with her family in refugee camps in Hong Kong and Philippines[3]. Le became an ABC journalist and politician, and was named as one of the 100 most influential Australian women in 2014.[4] At the 2022 Australian federal election she successfuly ran as an independent candidate in the Division of Fowler in Western Sydney, a seat that had been held by the Australian Labor Party since its creation in 1984.[5] Le is the first refugee to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives.