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Serving our country, Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship, edited by Joan Beaumont & Allison Cadzow

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Serving our country

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edited by Joan Beaumont & Allison Cadzow

Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship

After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman, Alison Cadzow, and others, reveal the courage, resilience, and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia

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