Joan Beaumont: Serving Our Country – Book Launch

When:
19 April 2018 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
2018-04-19T18:30:00+10:00
2018-04-19T19:30:00+10:00
Where:
Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Rd
Glebe NSW 2037
Australia
Contact:
Gleebooks
02 9660 2333

Joan Beaumont – Serving Our Country – Thursday 19th April

In conversation with Mick Dodson and Karen Mundine, CEO of Reconciliation Australia

After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces, edited by Joan Beaumont & Allison Cadzow.

While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life.

In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman, Allison Cadzow, and others, reveal the courage, resilience, and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.

Bookings essential.