Indigenous Australians mark Anzac Day in their own ways

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(Image: War memorial, Canberra by Leon Brooks)

Julia Gillard will be commemorating ANZAC day at Gallipoli, but there are some chapters of our war history much closer to home that some indigenous Australians will be trying to draw attention to. Scholars like Professor Mick Dodson say that the contribution of Indigenous war veterans hasn’t been sufficiently recognized. Other groups will be commemorating wars and massacres that aren’t traditionally remembered at ANZAC day – the conflicts that occurred during white settlement.

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