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How Vogue's first Indigenous cover model Elaine George paved the way for a new era

Clockwise from top: Magnolia Maymuru, Charlee Fraser, Cindy Rostron and Elaine George. (Supplied: Vogue)

When 17-year-old Elaine George posed for the cover of Vogue Australia in 1993, becoming the first Indigenous model to do so, the enormity of the situation was entirely lost on her.

Yet that image would prove to be a turning point in the representation of First Nations Australians at home and abroad, where Ms George says some people "didn't know they existed".

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