Sook Yee Lai
{{Short description|Western Australian politician}}
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| name = Sook Yee Lai
| honorific-suffix = MLA
| image = Sook Yee Lai 2025 01.jpg
| alt = Photograph of Lai
| caption = Lai in 2025
| assembly = Western Australian Legislative
| constituency_AM = Bibra Lake
| term_start = 8 March 2025
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| predecessor = Seat established
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| birth_place = Christmas Island
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| party = Labor
| website = {{URL|https://sookyeelai.com.au/}}
| alma_mater = Murdoch University
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Sook Yee Lai is an Australian politician from the Labor Party who is member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Bibra Lake. She won her seat at the 2025 Western Australian state election.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-09 |title=Bibra Lake - WA Electorate, Candidates, Results |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa/2025/guide/bibr |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.abc.net.au |language=en-AU}}
Biography
Sook Yee Lai grew up on Christmas Island and moved to Perth as a teenager.{{Cite web |title=Sook Yee Lai |url=https://sookyeelai.com.au/about/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=sookyeelai.com.au |language=en}} She travels back frequently to visit friends and family.{{Cite web |last=Springer |first=Kate |date=2022-12-24 |title=What it's like to live on Christmas Island |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/living-on-christmas-island/index.html |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=CNN |language=en}} She holds a double degree from Murdoch University in Asian Studies and Education.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-09 |title=Bibra Lake - WA Electorate, Candidates, Results |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa/2025/guide/bibr?future=true |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.abc.net.au |language=en-AU}} She has had a career as a high school teacher before working in the mining industry.{{Cite web |title=WA State Election 2025 |url=https://www.emilyslist.org.au/wa_state_election_2025#h_76389733311738557657623 |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=EMILY's List Australia |language=en}} She is of Chinese descent.{{Cite web|url=https://cccav.org.au/congratulations-to-sook-yee-lai-on-her-election-as-the-member-for-bibra-lake-in-the-wa-parliament/|title=Congratulations to Sook Yee Lai (黎淑仪) on Her Election as the Member for Bibra Lake in the WA Parliament – Chinese Community Council of Australia, Victoria Chapter|date=9 March 2025}}
References
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia
Category:Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Category:Women members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Category:21st-century Australian women politicians
Category:Australian people of Chinese descent
Category:Western Australian schoolteachers
Category:Murdoch University alumni
Category:People from Christmas Island
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