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Lunchtime in the Library: Jack of Hearts

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At

Northern Territory Library
19 Conacher St, The Gardens, NT

Cost

Free

Join Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru activist, essayist and historian Jackie Huggins AM and her sister Ngaire Jarro for a lunchtime book talk about Jack of Hearts, a moving biography of their father, Jack, and his role as an Aboriginal soldier in World War II. Jackie and Ngaire are joined by the curators of the Tiwi Heroes: World War Two Encounters exhibition for an illuminating discussion about the often overlooked contributions of Aboriginal people to Australia’s defence.

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