Most Australians are surprised to learn that around 75 per cent of the Aboriginal population doesn’t live in a remote community.
Indeed, the largest population of Aboriginal people in the nation is in and around Blacktown, in western Sydney.
But that’s never stopped successive Prime Ministers from trying to score political capital by ‘going to visit the real Aborigines’… who all, apparently, live out bush.
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