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Drawing on a wealth of Departmental archives and othe unpublished material, Clem Lloyd and Jacqui Rees have provided a frank account of an institution that, from soldier settlement schemes to Agent Orange, has responded to the needs of returned service people in a generous and open-hearted way.
The Last Shilling
A History of Repatriation in Australia
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530 pages
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1 April 1994
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Summary
Senator Edward Millen, who conceived and nurtured Australia’s repatriation system, described repatriation of returned service personnel as just as much ‘an emanation of the heart’ as a cause ‘worthy of the last shilling’. It had been a concern to Australians since the Boer War, but it was not until 1918 that an entire government department (now the Department of Veterans’ Affairs) came into being to address this concern.Drawing on a wealth of Departmental archives and other unpublished …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522845082 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522845088 |
| Author: | Jacqui Rees, Clem Lloyd |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 530 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1994 |
| Weight: | 1.28kg |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 177mm x 30mm |
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