RACISM AND SUSPICION OF FRAUD WITHIN RSL
It has already been established that RSL Vic State President at the time David McLachlan was fiercely opposed to honouring the indigenous soldiers. When asked about the “no black bastard died for Australia” comment, he had said to Sam Halim: “Maybe they [those people]...
Aunty Dot’s Story
Aunty Dot Peters was born in 1930 in Melbourne and spent much of her childhood at Corranderrk Aboriginal Mission in Healesville, where she learned the traditional arts of weaving and basket coiling. Aunty Dot’s father Vincent fought in the Second World War. He was...
RECONCILIATION: HOW IT ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN, THANKS (OR NO THANKS) TO THE INTERFERENCE OF ANZAC HOUSE/VICTORIAN STATE BRANCH
“No black bastard fought and died for Australia”. These words overheard by a distraught Aunty Dot Peters coming from the mouth of a member at Healesville RSL ignited the battle cry for the reconciliation movement. Such deeply entrenched racist views sitting at the...
Sam Halim’s Story
Egyptian born ex- Royal Australian Air Force Flight Sergeant Sam Halim had a distinguished Air Force career. Sam’s testimonial for...
Background to the Victorian Aboriginal Remembrance Service
The first official Aboriginal Remembrance Service took place at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne in 2007 and services have been taking place throughout Australia ever since. For years the Victorian aboriginal community had been calling for formal recognition of...