In October 1984, nine members of the Pintoi tribe of Western Australia met some long lost relatives they hadn't seen in years.

The relatives invited the nine people to come and live with them in their community in Kirikura.

The significance of the event is that those nine people,

two women with four boys and three girls,

were the last Aboriginal people in Australia

to have contact with the outside world. Up until

1984 they had lived their lives in the same fashion as their ancestors had for

tens of thousands of years. Learn more about the Pintupi Nine

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

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written and narrated by David Hunt. grit no word could better capture the essence of

Australia. In this hilarious history David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia. In this hilarious history David Hunt reveals the truth

of Australia's past from megafauna to McCrary the cock-ups and curiosities the

forgotten eccentricities and Eureka moments that have made them who they are.

Grit introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLaughlin, transported for the crime of

felony of sock, and trim the cat who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia.

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The story of the Pintope 9 starts back in the 1950s when the British military began

doing Blue Streak missile tests in the remote desert of Western Australia.

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