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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

Wrote to Governor-General, reporting progress of the North Australian Expedition.

From Journals of Australian Explorations by Gregory, Augustus 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