First Indige**us female MP sworn in amid traditional song
 

First Indige**us female MP sworn in amid traditional song
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A prominent Indige**us rights activist and politician has officially become Australia's first female Aboriginal MP, giving her maiden speech in the House of Representatives Wednesday.*

The Wiradjuri woman and former teacher was "sung in" by fellow Wiradjuri women in a powerful display of traditional culture.*

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Delivering her first speech as Labor member for the New South Wales seat of Barton in Sydney's south, Burney donned a kangaroo skin cloak featuring her clan totem, the goanna, and her personal totem, the white cockatoo, which she described as "the **isy messenger bird."* Read more...

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