Soldiers from the North-West Mobile Force and the 51st Far North Queensland Regiment standing around a sandbox used to display troop movements during a training exercise at a military barracks located on the outskirts of the Northern Territory capital city of Darwin. — AFP
IN the scorching heat of Australia’s far north, the next generation of Indigenous army leaders crawl almost unseen through red dust, past towering termite mounds and eucalyptus trees.
Just over a century ago, their ancestors were banned from fighting for their country but these men and women are now training in Darwin to become patrol commanders.
