Past and present Aboriginal soldiers honoured with new artwork at busy Adelaide intersection

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It's hoped a new artwork positioned beside a major Adelaide intersection will cause people to reflect on the role and sacrifice of Aboriginal soldiers who fought for Australia in past conflicts.

Mr Maher has been tasked with creating a shortlist from which six people will eventually be chosen to be comemorated."We have a lot of monuments, a lot of statues to our colonial history, to what white people have done in Australia," he said.

Aboriginal Veterans SA co-chair Uncle Frank Lampard welcomed efforts to better recognise the contribution Aboriginal people have made, but said there was still a long way to go.He said there were currently 27 young Aboriginal men and women in the 7th Battalion at the Edinburgh Royal Australian Air Force military base in Adelaide.

"Not to mention of course the national project of headstones, we have come to recognise that a lot of our people have been buried in unmarked graves, all over the state."there could be more than 2,500 unmarked graves of Indigenous and non-Indigenous veterans in the state.

 

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I don’t recall seeing any other war memorial where Aboriginal soldiers were purposefully left out, so I don’t see the point of this.

More racism . Ridiculous

Honouring people according to their race - what a great way to bring people together

. When are they building the white mans memorial? .

It does look a little like soldiers walking toward a massive vagina.

Good to see!

Good stuff. Respect!

keep race out of it

See this is good. Respect. We are ALL Australians. You have taken a quick break from race-baiting ABC, but for how long?

Why not at the Australian War Memorial?

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