Peter Bakker – Healing the Wounds – Some thoughts on Victorian Aboriginal People and the Soldier Settlements
Peter Bakker (Clyde, Victoria) is a military Historian Specialising in Australian Aboriginal military service. Peter's submission outlines Historic injustices experienced by Aboriginals in Victoria relating to Aboriginal military service in Australia’s early ‘modern wars’ and provides recommendations to Address these Injustices.
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