progressiveauspol: The Black Rats of Tobruk Hundreds of Indigenous soldiers fought in WW2, with many
progressiveauspol: The Black Rats of Tobruk Hundreds of Indigenous soldiers fought in WW2, with many paying the ultimate sacrifice but little changed upon arrival back in Australia. While White Australians received pensions and soldier settlement blocks, Indigenous servicemen were denied these things. To add insult to injury some had their children taken away as part of white Australia’s insidious stolen generation policy , fined or jailed for drinking and faced continued harassment and vilification from their white neighbors. -- source link