1971: Neville Bonner, an elder of the Jagera people, is appointed by the Queensland parliament to fill a Liberal casual vacancy in the Senate. He later became the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the parliament by popular vote. He serves in the Senate until 1983
1998: Aden Ridgeway is elected as a senator for New South Wales, the first Indigenous Australian Democrats parliamentarian.
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