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Fact check: Is Australia is the only first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people in its constitution?

Fact check: Is Australia is the only first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people in its constitution?

Update: 2019-10-24

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Opposition spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, says Australia's constitution is the only constitution of a first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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Fact check: Is Australia is the only first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people in its constitution?

Fact check: Is Australia is the only first world nation with a colonial history that doesn't recognise its first people in its constitution?

Madeleine Morris