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significance of Linda Burney's appointment to the House of…
significance of Linda Burney's appointment to the House of Representative and why she talked about her story as an Aboriginal Woman- include in this her personal totem and it's significance
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Childhood
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She struggled constantly with her identity during high school when she was 13 years old (similarly to Stan Grant who felt isolated).
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She only met her Wiradjuri father when she was 28 years old, only then realising she had 10 other siblings.
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At school, she was bullied and her heritage was disrespected
When she visited her hometown, a man told her that when she was born, it was one of the darkest days the town had seen.
She shared her story to tell others of the personal struggles of her life to educate them and give them an example of Aboriginal Culture
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The cloak featured her clan totem, the goanna, and her personal totem, the white cockatoo – "the noisy messenger bird'.
The kangaroo-skin cloak she wore told the story of a "freshwater kid from the Riverina", whose first 10 years were spent in a time when the number of sheep in the country was counted, but not the number of Aboriginal people.
The white cockatoo totem people are naturally really loud and is why she described them as "the noisy messenger bird"