A special issue on Indigenous Service, the latest edition of Wartime (No. 76 | Spring 2016) is available now includes articles by Serving Our Country researchers. In the lead article ‘Why did they serve?’, Mick Dodson and Siobhan McDonnell ask ‘Facing entrenched discrimination in Australia, why did black diggers still enlist to serve their country? And in ‘Between the Wars’, Noah Riseman states that Attitudes towards Indigenous service changed after 1945, fostering leadership and reconciliation.

About the magazine: Published quarterly, Wartime is the military history magazine of the Australian War Memorial and is devoted to the Australian experience of war; military history; and the effects of war on society. All features are written by eminent historians and deal fully and frankly with both the distressing and the lighter sides of war. Each issue delivers many stories of courage and survival of both service personnel and civilians, illustrated throughout by incredible images from the Memorial archives.