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After the war with Japan began, Wau became an evacuation centre, receiving refugees from Lae and Salamaua. Non-native women and children were evacuated while men of military age were called up for service in the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, the local militia unit. Initially, civilians were evacuated by civilian aircraft but as the Japanese drew ...
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial, museum and archive dedicated to all Australians who died as a result of war, including peacekeeping duties. The AWM is located in Campbell , a suburb of the Australian capital city of Canberra .
The series calls on the Australian War Memorial, who had previously rejected including the frontier wars in its exhibitions, [1] to acknowledge and recognise those who died during the conflicts. [11] In an episode of the series, the War Memorial's director Matt Anderson says it was conceived to represent military activity overseas, not within ...
The artwork Aboriginal Memorial commemorates Indigenous Australians who lost their lives defending Country since 1788, and has been on display at the National Gallery of Australia since 1988 [99] Armed resistance to British invasion was generally given little attention by historians until the 1970s, and was not regarded as a "war".
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Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall is a sculptural artwork by Indigenous Australian artist Tony Albert located in Hyde Park, Sydney. Unveiled on 31 March 2015, the artwork acknowledges the service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women in the Australian Defence Force .
This is a list of wars, armed conflicts and rebellions involving the Commonwealth of Australia (1901–present) and its predecessor colonies, the colonies of New South Wales (1788–1901), Van Diemen's Land (1825–1856), Tasmania (1856–1901), Victoria (1851–1901), Swan River (1829–1832), Western Australia (1832–1901), South Australia (1836–1901), and Queensland (1859–1901).
"Women who graduated from law schools these days, I don't know the exact statistics on that, but I do think that that it is about an equal number and maybe even more than 50%."