not quite. It was the first conflict we'd been involved in since Federation, and that meant we had something to prove. But we were involved in the Boer War, in fact, quite shamefully, we sent over aboriginal trackers to help in the Boer War, and left them there once they were no longer useful. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/tracking-the-trackers-hunt-begins-for-abandoned-bushmen-20090907-fd26.html
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Date: 2013-09-14 10:28 am (UTC)