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1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Maps -- Abbreviations -- Words of warning -- Chapter 1: It starts with stories -- Chapter 2: Conflicts and wars -- an overview -- Chapter 3: Opportunity -- Roy 'Zeke' Mundine 'I've met some great blokes' -- Thelma Weston 'I have to get a job, so I joined the army' -- John Kinsela 'I got my act together' -- Gaye Doolan 'A long line of learning through my life' -- Tommy Munyarryun 'In the uniform, with the stripes' -- Chapter 4: Mates -- Len Ogilvie and Frank Mallard 'Met a lot of good mates' -- Vic Simon 'We lost a few good mates' -- Eric Law 'Mates all of our lives' -- Claude Malone 'Meeting up with old mates...when I go home' -- Edna Coolburra 'They call eachother twin' -- Jean Williamson 'We used to always be together, us five' -- Chapter 5: Equal -- Alec Illin 'We were all the same' -- Phillip Bowie 'How are you going to fight this out?' -- Leslie Boyd 'They thought they had it over you' -- Geoff Shaw 'The only colour that everybody knew was green' -- John Lester 'He couldn't drink in a public bar' -- Michael Bell 'Yet they signed up...despite the laws of the day being against them' -- Chapter 6: Country -- John Lovett 'He was denied the lot' -- Boyd Scully 'On convoys, way down to Adelaide' -- Aden Eades and Eliza Woods 'We speak for Dad but we are also mindful of others' -- Vernice Gillies and Lester Coyne 'A favourite place' -- Merle Cashman 'This is my country, I have to do this' -- Gordon Marshall and John Darraga Watson 'We should be fighting for our own country too' -- Ashley Oobagooma 'This is Wandjina country' -- Chapter 7: Taken away -- Sue Gordon 'To honour those who were there before you' -- Margaret Culbong 'Still fighting for his country' -- Narelle Urquhart 'Relationships are broken' -- Cecil Bowden 'He was told never to come back again' |
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Lionel Harradine 'For justice and freedom' -- Pattie Lees 'Little big girl' -- Chapter 8: Identities -- George Derschow '...Dad being a German and Mum a native' -- Mial 'Bing' Bingarape 'My brother could have been amongst them' -- George Anderson 'I might be black, but I'm bloody well Australian!' -- Graham Atkinson 'I'm Aboriginal...we are proud people' -- Gary Oakley 'Who's your mob?' -- Chapter 9: Healing -- Michael Markham 'I started giving back' -- Les and Robyn Kropinyeri 'You suffered some anguish over this' -- Denis Smallwood 'Coming home is the real job' -- Valma Hinton, Gladys Constantine and Tamara Giles 'He wouldn't have rice in the house' -- Pat Kopusar 'We still laughed and I think that's our secret' -- Dorothy Shaw, Clyde Rigney and Verna Koolmatrie 'Caring for the men' -- Chapter 10: Found, told and treasured -- Tony Brown 'We always knew it was significant' -- Glenda Humes 'He was just Dad' -- Hilary Saunders 'I used to sleep under his greatcoat' -- Murray Everett 'A suitcase on top of the wardrobe' -- Tyronne Bell 'Opening up the records' -- Ron Ralph 'It was WX36368. I never forgot it' -- Belinda Pocock and Hilda Prince 'If the country needed him to go, he would go' -- Dennis Anderson 'The damage that was done in my life, I like to think it made me stronger' -- Jackie McDonald and Trish Borg' We've got something to treasure' -- Chapter 11: Recognition -- Marjorie Tripp 'That many people have come to life' -- Gloria Templar 'You just feel so proud' -- Dorothy Murray 'We used to lay a wreath there' -- Ray Minniecon 'It's in the memory of our people' -- Robert Lowe 'Biting the bullet' -- Noeline Briggs-Smith 'My ancestors are not forgotten' -- Allen Lockyer and Ann Sibosado 'It's not just about our family, it's about everybody' -- Dorothy Peters 'The Ode with the didgeridoo playing in the background' -- Notes -- Archival sources |
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Electronic book
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9780855750763 |
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0855750766 |
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