Garry Smith just wanted to complete a family tree documenting his Aboriginal heritage.

However in 2013, when he retrieved the 19th Century birth certificate for his great-grandmother, he noticed a glaring omission: the word "Aboriginal" had been covered over.

He asked authorities what had happened, and was told the word had been erased due to its "offensive" connotations.


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