The sitting Labor member for the Sydney electoral district is the federal deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek.

She has advocated for indigenous rights for over two decades and is running for office as a federal deputy.

The federal deputy chief medical officer Dr Nick Coatsworth said these numbers were confined largely to four or five outbreaks.

Indigenous chief Mario Juruna was the first indigenous politician to reach the National Congress, elected as a federal deputy in 1982.

He was elected to the national assembly in 2014 as the only federal deputy representing the Christian-backed National Restoration Party (PRN).