Jinson Anto Charls is an Malayali Australian politician from the

Country Liberal Party The Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory (CLP), commonly known as the Country Liberals, is a centre-right and conservative political party in Australia's Northern Territory. In territory politics, it operates in a two-party system wi ...

. Charls was born in

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

, India and moved to

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

in 2011, before moving to Darwin in 2015. In the

2024 Northern Territory general election The 2024 Northern Territory general election was held on 24 August 2024 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Members were elected through full preferential instant-runoff voting ...

, he

unseated Unseating is a political term which refers to a legislator who loses their seat in an election. A legislator who is unseated loses the right to sit in a legislative chamber. A landslide victory results in many legislators being unseated. Austral ...

Labor minister Kate Worden in Sanderson. On 9 September 2024, he was appointed to the Finocchiaro ministry as a government minister.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Country Liberal Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Indian emigrants to Australia Australian politicians of Indian descent {{Australia-politician-stub Australian people of Malayali descent