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But Priscilla Collins, CEO of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency in Darwin, said officials knew about the footage for years.

From US News • Jul. 26, 2016

Eleven men rode to battle in the big 6-24 Liberator bomber "Golden Gator," but only four lived to see their North Australian base again.

From Time Magazine Archive

In another instance a vessel was wrecked on the North Australian coast in 1846, and nearly twenty years later the sole survivor turned up at a cattle station near Port Denison, in North Queensland.

From The Beginning Of The Sea Story Of Australia 1901 by Becke, Louis

He was serving as a volunteer at the Cape when he was selected as artist to accompany the North Australian Exploring Expedition, under Mr. Gregory. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

No wonder, then, that in the district explored by Grey, these arms should have given way to the equally effective boomerang, throwing-stick, and spears, and other weapons of the North Australian savage.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest