The Returned and Services League of Australia, an organization for Australian war veterans that often excluded Indigenous people.
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RSL Term Timeline in Black Diggers
The timeline below shows where the term RSL appears in Black Diggers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act Two
...fought in the war, says he “never saw any men like you over there.” An RSL secretary tells the worker to let them in, “and anyone else with medals and rosemary,”...
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...to us [Indigenous veterans] by depriving us of our food.” And the seventh implores the RSL to appeal to the State Government and help “grant full citizen privileges to every one...
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End Matter
...from Indigenous Australians. Indigenous veterans were often deprived of their promised pay and excluded from RSL groups. These soldiers’ contributions are an incredibly important part of Australian Indigenous history, and only...
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