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Three members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), confer with a North Korean interpreter (left) who is serving with the battalion. Saunders is second from the right, smoking a pipe.

The fighting Gunditjmara

Indigenous people have fought for Country and for nation, from frontier wars to world wars.

By Dr Lachlan Grant

Alfred Bolter, Governor Davey's Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816 (c. 1866, lithograph, 48 x 28 cm)

A Painted Proclamation

A colonial artwork in the Memorial’s collection has its roots in brutal frontier warfare.

By Dr Thomas Rogers

Colonial 1788-1901