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Aboriginal Service in the First World War : Identity, Recognitiion and the Problem of Mateship single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Aboriginal Service in the First World War : Identity, Recognitiion and the Problem of Mateship
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'The popular construction of unconditional mateship, said to make the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) the band of brothers it never was, today overshadows the existence of racism in the AIF, and the fact that the negative treatment Aboriginal servicemen received post-war was often at the hands of those now said to have been their mates...'

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  • Includes bibliography

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    y separately published work icon Aboriginal History vol. 39 December Liz Conor (editor), 2015 9275424 2015 periodical issue

    'Volume 39 of Aboriginal History is timely for the centenary of Gallipoli this year. The 56 Indigenous men who fought in this disastrous battle are duly noted in its special section on Aboriginal war service, edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman. As Riseman points out in his preface, Aboriginal History can be credited as playing a leading role in the inception of growing interest in Indigenous combatants by devoting an earlier special issue to them in 1992, still nascent days for the field. ' (Preface introduction)

         2015     pg. 163-181 Section: Special Section: Aboriginal War Service – Edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman
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