A push for recognition of Indigenous diggers – SBS

5 MAR 2014

The New South Wales Government is calling for the sacrifice of black diggers to be commemorated during this years World War One centenary.

This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the First World War, a war in which hundreds of Indigenous Australians served.

President of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Veterans Association, David Williams says when his uncle returned from serving in Korea, doors were closed in his face because he was Aboriginal.

Over the decades, Indigenous veterans came home from war to face the same discrimination they left behind.

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