Serving Our Country

Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania, Military
Cover of the book Serving Our Country by Joan Beaumont, Alison Cadzow, University of New South Wales Press
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Author: Joan Beaumont, Alison Cadzow ISBN: 9781742244174
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press Publication: September 25, 2018
Imprint: New South Language: English
Author: Joan Beaumont, Alison Cadzow
ISBN: 9781742244174
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Publication: September 25, 2018
Imprint: New South
Language: English

After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defense forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defense 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 defense personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defense of Australia.

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After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defense forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defense 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 defense personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defense of Australia.

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