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SYDNEY: One of Australia’s longest-serving prime ministers on Wednesday said British colonisation was “the luckiest thing that happened” to his country, while predicting a referendum to give Indigenous communities a “voice” in national policymaking would fail. Australia is expected to hold a referendum this year on whether to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a constitutionally enshrined right to be …

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