Jinson Charls

Jinson Anto Charls is an Malayali Australian politician from the Country Liberal Party.

Jinson Charls
Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for the Electoral division of Sanderson
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 August 2024
Preceded by	Kate Worden
Personal details
Party	Country Liberal Party

Charls was born in Kerala, India and moved to Australia in 2011, before moving to Darwin in 2015.^[1]

In the 2024 Northern Territory general election, he unseated Labor minister Kate Worden in Sanderson.^[2]

On 9 September 2024, he was appointed to the Finocchiaro ministry as a government minister.^[3]

In May, during a debate on racism in parliament, the Northern Territories Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Jeswynn Yogaratnam criticised Charls' comments that appeared to link race with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Justine Davis, a member of the legislative assembly, questioned Charls' ability to fulfill the role of multicultural affairs minister after he made comments likening the opposition to the Nazi party and later quoted Joseph Goebbels. In the beginning of his speech, Charls told the chamber that he does "not support racism in any form".^[4]