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Serving Our Country participant profiles and interviews
15 December 2017You can now view over 180 Serving Our Country Participant profiles and interviews on the Yarn U
WWII RAAF veteran Len Waters included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
22 May 2017Leonard Victor Waters (Len) (1924–1993), shearer and airman, was born on 20 June 1924 at Euraba Aboriginal Mission near Boomi, New South Wales … Len enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF
Aboriginal Enlistment During World War I
09 May 2017A century ago in May 1917, the Australian Army issued a Military Order stating that “half castes may be enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force providing that the examining Medical Officers are s
Sydney interviews 2017
05 May 2017In May 2017, the project returned to Sydney to conduct some further interviews, including with Val Hinton
The lost souls of Condah who joined the Anzacs
24 April 2017A bad season was coming. Drought was slinking from the north when the boys from Condah began trooping off to the recruiting office … Lake Condah shrank to a puddle.
Professor Mick Dodson launches new exhibition at the National Archives of Australia
24 March 2017Professor Mick Dodson opened a new exhibition at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in Canberra today.
Indigenous Australians at War from the Boer War to the Present
22 March 2017Opened on 24 March 2017, this award-winning exhibition from the
Facing Two Fronts: the fight for respect
22 March 2017How did war become a platform for advocating the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?
Aboriginal WWI digger to be brought home
06 March 2017Australian Associated Press reports today that an Aboriginal WWI soldier whose remains have lain in an unmarked grave in Adelaide for nearly a century will be reburied near his home with full milit
Defending Country: Indigenous Service
25 October 2016A special issue on Indigenous Service, the latest edition of Wartime (No.
