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In 2016, Senator [[Malarndirri McCarthy]] gave an Acknowledgement of Country in [[Yanyuwa language|Yanyuwa]].<ref name="aiatsis"/>
 
In 2022, two MPs spoke both [[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]] in their maiden speeches: [[Jerome Laxale]] and [[Zoe McKenzie]], both of whom are of [[French Australians|French]] background.<ref>https://thewest.com.au/politics/french-flavour-to-mps-first-speeches-c-8362141.amp</ref> In the same year, [[Sam Lim]] used fourthree languages in his maiden speech: [[Malay language|Malay]], [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] and English (in that order).<ref>https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/terima-kasih-malaysian-born-australian-mp-sam-lim-praised-for-multilingual-inaugural-speech</ref>
 
=== New South Wales ===