He is of Aboriginal Australian (Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi), Indian, English and Irish descent, and in 2010 became the first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives as well as the first indigenous federal minister in 2017.
É de ascendencia aborixe australiana (noongar, yamatji e wongi), india, inglesa e irlandesa, e en 2010 converteuse no primeiro membro aborixe da Casa de Representantes así como o primeiro ministro federal indíxena en 2017.