Victorian Aboriginal Remembrance Service

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This commemoration honours the service of First Peoples men and women, past and present.

First Peoples have served in every conflict and peacekeeping mission involving Australia for more than a century. This is despite the fact that First Peoples were not allowed to enlist until the Second World War and for many years, their service was not recognised.

This all changed in 2006, when Indigenous elder the late Aunty Dot Peters AM and retired- RAAF Flight Sergeant Sam Halim, then president of Healesville RSL Sub-Branch, held the first ever Remembrance Service to honour the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Soldiers.