The fast track

By Stuart Rintoul
March 22 2014 - 4:00am
Comes with the Territory … following a steller sporting career, Nova Peris has become the ALP's first federal indigenous politician. Photo: Glenn Campbell
Comes with the Territory … following a steller sporting career, Nova Peris has become the ALP's first federal indigenous politician. Photo: Glenn Campbell

We are in a hotel restaurant in Darwin, empty but for us. Nova Peris is wearing white, a gold watch flashing on her wrist, a steely edge in her voice, as she talks about the criticism that rained down on her a year ago when Julia Gillard named her as her "captain's pick" to become Labor's first indigenous member of federal parliament.

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