Black Diggers
Introduction + Context
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Foreword Introduction Act One Act Two End Matter
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All Themes Australian Nationhood and Indigenous Dispossession Racism War, Violence, and Shell Shock History, Memory, and the Archive
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Characters
All Characters Nigel Harry Ern Archie Laurie Mick Bertie Tommy Norm Bob Taxidermist A Ghost Bertie’s Mom Bertie’s Grandad Stan
Terms
All Terms Abbeville Aborigines’ Protection Boards ADF AIF Allied Forces Amiens ANZAC Anzac Day Australian Museum, Sydney Barambah Beersheba, Palestine Bellender Ker, Queensland Boundary Hotel, Brisbane Bullecourt Callan Park Canaan Castlereagh Street Cherbourg Coniston Massacre Dardanelles Diggers Erskineville Forest Lodge, Sydney Frying Pan Creek, NSW Glebe George Street Gwyndir River Half-Caste Iron Cove Jordan River The Light Horse Maranoa Maori – Messines Mount Gambier Murgon Murrumbidgee New South Wales No Man’s Land Palarver Passchendaele Petrie Terrace Picaninny Polygon Wood Pozieres PTSD Queen Street Queensland Red Cross RSL Soldier Settlement Commission South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Southern Cross Torres Strait Islanders Villers-Bretonneux Western District, Victoria Woolloomooloo Ypres Zössen POW Camp
Symbols
All Symbols Bertie’s Circus Show The Lock of Frank’s Hair Ern’s Bullet Shards Letters
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Black Diggers

by

Tom Wright

Murgon Term Analysis

A town in Queensland, where Ern gives up his war medals.
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The timeline below shows where the term Murgon appears in Black Diggers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act Two
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In the town of Murgon in 1939, Ern walks into a pharmacy and gives the chemist his war medals, because... (full context)
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