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