Sydney (AFP) - A former teacher has made political history by becoming the first indigenous woman elected to Australia's parliamentary lower house, winning a seat for the centre-left Labor party after national polls.
Linda Burney, 59, has been a trailblazer, having been the first female Aboriginal to enter the New South Wales state parliament in 2003.
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