Aboriginal woman makes Australian political history

A former teacher has made political history by becoming the first indigenous woman elected to Australia's parliamentary lower house, winning a seat for the center-left Labor party after national polls.

Linda Burney, 59, has been a trailblazer, having been the first female aboriginal to enter the New South Wales state parliament in 2003.

She joins the first aboriginal MP Ken Wyatt of the conservative Liberal Party, who was elected in 2010, and follows in the footsteps of former senator and Olympian Nova Peris, who was the first indigenous woman in the upper house.