Commissioner Rodney Dillon, from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, received the remains in Exeter on Thursday on behalf of the Australian Aboriginal community.

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Sorry Books 1998 held by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.

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The common name of Burrunan dolphins derives from the Aboriginal Australian for "large sea fish of the porpoise kind".

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That year, he also became the first Aboriginal person to be named Australian of the Year.

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She spent nearly three years studying boredom among the Warlpiri people, an aboriginal group in the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu.

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In 2008 the Australian government gave an official apology to its Aboriginal communities.

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May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.

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In "The Sapphires, " an Australian debut feature directed by Wayne Blair, three aboriginal sisters plus a cousin who'd rather be white take their Supremes-ly exuberant Motown songs to U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.

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Last month, Elizabeth Durack, a well-regarded 81-year-old artist from Western Australia, was revealed to be the person who painted pictures supposedly by an aboriginal artist called Eddie Burrup that had been appearing in Australian galleries and competitions since 1994.

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