Beaumont Joan - Serving our country: indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship

SERVING OUR COUNTRY

JOAN BEAUMONT is Professor Emerita, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, at the Australian National University. Her publications include the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2013); with Aaron Pegram and Lachlan Grant, Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century (2015); (ed.) Australias War, 193945 (1996); Gull Force: Survival and Leadership in Captivity, 19411945 (1988); and Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia, 19411945 (1980). In 201113 she led the research team for the Department of Veterans Affairs commemorative website, The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass.

ALLISON CADZOW is a Research Associate at the Australian National University. She co-authored Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydneys Georges River (2009) with Heather Goodall (shortlisted for the 2010 NSW Premiers History Awards). She has also co-edited Nelson Aboriginal Studies (2012) for HSC Aboriginal Studies teachers and students in NSW with John Maynard, and Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory with Tiffany Shellam, Maria Nugent and Shino Konishi (2016). She has developed community history exhibitions and websites and has also worked at the National Museum of Australia. Her other areas of interest and publication include migrancy and environmental history, as well as womens and gender histories.

This book is dedicated to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have served in the national defence forces, in the past and present, and the families of those service people who have told and shared their histories.

SERVING OUR COUNTRY

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS, WAR, DEFENCE AND CITIZENSHIP

EDITED BY

JOAN BEAUMONT AND ALLISON CADZOW

A NewSouth book

Published by

NewSouth Publishing

University of New South Wales Press Ltd

University of New South Wales

Sydney NSW 2052

AUSTRALIA

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Joan Beaumont and Allison Cadzow 2018

First published 2018

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ISBN: 9781742235394 (paperback)

9781742244174 (ebook)

9781742248592 (ePDF)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia

Design Josephine Pajor-Markus

Cover design Peter Long

Cover images Arthur Murdoch, one of the Barambah Boys who fought in the First World War. Cherbourg Museum.

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