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Thank you for putting up with the invasion

— Tony Abbott Leader of the Opposition (2009)

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To a student at Pukatja, one of South Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities. Quoted in "Tony Abbott says: 'Thank you for putting up with the invasion'", National Indigenous Television (NITV), SBS, November 2, 2018

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