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174 cultural items taken from a remote indigenous community in the 1950s by an English anthropologist have been handed over to elders in what experts hope will prove to be a ‘trigger’ for other museums to return similar materials. Members of the Anindilyakwa community travelled to the English city of Manchester for the emotional ceremony. Later this year, the items will be returned to Groote Island, 50 kilometres off the Northern Territory Coast. ....
An indigenous attorney-general has launched a blistering attack on an inner city Melbourne Greens senator who assumed she was a white man . During a speech in Canberra on Tuesday, Senator Lidia Thorpe assumed NT Attorney-General Selena Uibo was a man who was hopefully white. Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman, was delivering a speech about changes to youth bail laws when she made the blunder. I do hope the Attorney-General, given he probably didn t read the royal commission recommendations, hopefully he listens to these experts, she said. Hopefully, they re white. You know, white is right in this place. ....