More than 1,000 Aboriginal Australians served in WWI – but unlike white soldiers, they weren’t feted as heroes. They responded with collective activism.
A 15-year effort to award Australia’s highest military honour to an Indigenous soldier for the first time is being “carefully ...
Dawn services for Anzac Day were disrupted in three cities. The hecklers seemed to be targeting a widespread Aboriginal custom meant to acknowledge the land’s original inhabitants. By Victoria Kim ...
Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the ...
Australian Army Private Valentine Hare, one of the soldiers photographed in The Queenslander Pictorial, supplement to The Queenslander, 1917. Valentine Hare served in the 2nd Light Horse Regiment in ...
The Duke of Sussex was welcomed by Indigenous veterans as he arrived at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Harry is attending a Last Post Ceremony at the memorial in the Australian capital on ...
Frederick Prentice rose from small-town boy to war-time hero with his exploits during WWI, but died without the recognition he had earned. In 1901, anthropologists Baldwin Spencer and Francis James (F ...