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Content note: Please be aware that this post contains names and images of Indigenous Australian people who are or may be now deceased. Come gather round, people, / I’m gonna tell you a story... The...

Lest we forget..indigineous soldiers fought for our country at a time when our government did not acknowledge them as citizens or allow them to vote. We will remember them.

The aboriginals in the north of australia have a kind of burial where the corps is laid on a wooden platform, covered in plants and leaves, so the corps can rot. Then, the bones which are left are painted red, and are either put in a dead tree, carried around by relatives, or put in some kind of shelter

Miller Mack, one of the first Indigenous Australians to serve in the First World War. Indigenous Australians were not allowed to sign up when the war broke out (they were not legally allowed to wear...

Len Waters, the first Aboriginal Australian military aviator, and the only one to serve as a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. Aborigines at the time suffered significant discrimination and disadvantages, restrictions on movement, residence, employment and access to services and citizenship. He flew 95 missions in P-40 Kittyhawks in the South West Pacific theatre, but was unable to secure financial backing and government approval for a regional…

War is a horribly fascinating thing, however much man may hate it.

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Reg Saunders became the first commissioned Aboriginal Officer in the Australian Army in 1944

The Tasmanian genocide (fl. 1826-1829) is where Whites from Britain wiped out nearly all the people of Tasmania, then called Van Diemen’s Land, now part of Australia. They sent the few hundre…

Private David Harris a soldier in the Western Australian raised 2/11th Battalion and a member of the unit boxing team.He was heavily wounded in combat on Crete and captured whilst at a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS).

By Emma Murphy & Peter Robson, Green Left, Saturday, March 17, 2012 New legislation introduced by the federal Labor government will entrench many aspects of the Northern Territory Emergency Res…

<b>A new play called <i>Black Diggers</i> sheds light on a neglected part of Australian history.</b> Here are some of the true stories behind it.