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First Australian Aboriginal MP elected for Liberals

August 29, 2010

An Aboriginal man has been elected to Australia's House of Representatives, becoming the first indigenous MP in the country's history.

"In 50 years' time historians and people will be analysing why Hasluck chose an indigenous candidate, and what they'll discover is that they didn't choose an indigenous candidate because I was indigenous," Mr Wyatt told reporters on Sunday.

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