Aboriginal Soldiers - Remembrance Day 11/11/24

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Interview with Michael Lester, Presenter for Radio Northern Beaches based in Sydney, Australia

https://www.mixcloud.com/michael-lester5/aboriginal-diggers-forgotten-hidden-bridge-tom-murray-prof-screen-arts-macquarie-u-vol421/

 

Subject

Although not recognised as citizens, without basic rights or the right to vote, over 1,000 indigenous australians signed up as volunteers with the australian imperial force (aif) to fight, die and be pow, in the first world war fought in france, and returned home to not only continuing lack of their basic rights, but lack of recognition or support for their contribution and subsequent trauma. tom murray, professor, screen arts, macquarie university discusses his ten year project writing, direcing and producing his docu drama, 'the skin of others' that tells the story of indigenous man douglas grant (1855-1951) from the killing of his parents at the age of two during the frontier wars in queensland, though his wartime experiences fighting overseas, to his neglected, return after te war.