Anzac Day is an important national tradition in Australia. Sunday 25th April 1915 marks the day when the Anzac troops arrived at Gallipoli. Welcome to the 2016 Anzac day ceremony where we commemorate the brave soldiers who have served and sacrificed their lives for our country and for making our nation what it is today. We are all gathered here today to remember the Australians who served and died in the war, but over the past years, Anzac day has never shown proper recognition to Indigenous soldiers who have courageously fought for this country trying to fight for equality. Indigenous Australians have always been victims of cultural conflict and were always inferior to the white Australian community.
Indigenous Australians were a racial minority in society, in 1901 the constitution excluded Aboriginal people by not regarding them as Australian citizens. In addition, not all
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There was no longer any division of colour and negative stereotypes didn’t exist. Young Australians saw them as no different as any other human being and treated them fairly. Not once thinking that one might be superior to the other. But as they returned home, things were exactly the way they were before the war. The non-indigenous men who fought along the Indigenous Australians were no longer equal to each other and the line between colour and white was clear. Indigenous survivors came back and received not one recognition or honour that other Caucasian soldiers did. They were often ignored and were looked down on by the white Australian community. The white community brought their own problem about Indigenous Australians and the Commonwealth government approved by public opinion and ensured that the Indigenous soldier who fought in the war were not granted to enjoy a beer in a pub. The Indigenous Australian who served in the war had their happiness ripped away from them instead of earning equality with everyone