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An agency responsible for granting land to returned soldiers in exchange for their service, which plays an important part in Act Two of Black Diggers, when Mick Dempsey learns that his ancestral lands in the Western District of Victoria are being given away to white veterans, but Aboriginal veterans are virtually blocked from receiving land.
Soldier Settlement Commission Quotes in Black Diggers
The Black Diggers quotes below are all either spoken by Soldier Settlement Commission or refer to Soldier Settlement Commission. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act Two Quotes
For you the war’s over. What’s starting to dawn on me is that, for us, it’s never going to end.
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After the war, veteran Mick goes to a public meeting of the Soldier Settlement Commission, the agency responsible for allotting land to World War One veterans, in the Western District of Victoria, where he lives. Instead of collecting a settlement like many of the returning white soldiers, Mick watches his own land—arid, fruitless land onto which his family was forced after they were driven out of their native territory—get appropriated by the government and given away to other soldiers. Although he and the farmers with him insist that the land is useless and that Mick is a war hero, the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam.
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Soldier Settlement Commission Term Timeline in Black Diggers
The timeline below shows where the term Soldier Settlement Commission appears in Black Diggers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act Two
...a public meeting in the Western District of Victoria in 1922, a worker from the Soldier Settlement Commission explains to three farmers that the government is appropriating some of their land to give...
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