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It’s time for Australia to recognise all its Diggers this Anzac Day

19 April 2021
Australian soldier John Poland. Credit: Unknown/Honouring Indigenous War Graves

Until 1967, First Nations people were not counted in the national population, which meant Indigenous Australians who fought in the Boer War, World War I, including at Gallipoli, and World War II were fighting for a country that did not acknowledge or recognise them.

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Last updated: 6 January 2023

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