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An Australian Aboriginal man plays a didgeridoo at Government House in Sydney. © Reuters

GEOFF HISCOCK

For most Australians the constellation that stands out in the night sky is the Southern Cross, a set of five bright stars with its main axis pointing south. But indigenous people see something else -- in the dark clouds surrounding the Milky Way, they discern the elongated image of a flightless bird.

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