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hey pass the ball.... POP! hi my name is mark and today im gonna tell uou guys what i know about aboriginals in the ww2.
man i hate my life everyday ive been getting whipped and treated like pigs, i wish i could go to my real parents not some dodgy foster care. why you guys have to treat us like this why cant you hack it that were humans too. them dogs have no respect for us treating us as though were the ones who came in on those water boats, with weapons, shooting and killing innocent people. at that point taking our children, and myself when i was just a little kid. and taking away our land that we found first, finders keepers loses weepers not the other way around. bro i think dreaming is a forgotten religion now cos all we dreaming about is our real parents.

Hundreds of our brothers, were killed fighting and at least a handful died as prisoners of war. As in the First World War, Indigenous Australians were treated under the same way as whites and, we were promised of full citizenship rights after the war. altho, there seems to have been little racism between the soldiers.

and now lets talk about William cooper,
Others, such as William Cooper, the Secretary of the Australian Indigenous Australians’ League, fighted that Indigenous Australians should not fight for white Australia. Cooper had lost his son in the First World War and was harsh that Aboriginal sacrifice had not brought any improvement in rights and conditions. Nevertheless, aboriginals who fought for our country, came back to the same racism as before. For example, many were striped from Returned and Services League clubs, except on Anzac Day. Many of us were not given the right to vote for another 17 years. even Aboriginal women played an important role. Many were in the women’s services or worked in the war business .
thank you for listing