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A world turned upside down

Wesley Enoch on the motivations for Indigenous Australians’ enlistment and how life in the AIF was different to home.

Watch Wesley Enoch discuss the motivations for Indigenous Australians’ enlistment and how life in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was different to home.

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If you’d like to find out more about this topic, go to the See also section of this step for a link to a trailer for Black Diggers. Black Diggers, a play written by Tom Wright and directed by Wesley Enoch tells the story of the Indigenous Australian experience of Gallipoli.

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