First Indigenous Australian students at Oxford look to rewrite history

Battling a postcolonial present, rewriting a brutal past, and derided by a conservative minority, Oxford university’s seven-strong group of Aboriginal students are reshaping history.Aside from the pressures of academic rigour and the symbolism of being “firsts”, the group are having to navigate Oxford’s otherworldly centuries-old traditions – the Latin prayers, the dinner gowns, the crystal wine decanters – as they etch their own mark on the oldest university in the English-speaking

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