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Remember the forgotten veterans

ON Saturday, Australia will remember all those who served in the ­Malayan Emergency (1948-60) and the Indonesian Confrontation, or Konfrontasi, (1962-66). In June 1948, after the Malayan Communist Party launched an ­insurgency against British colonial rule, a state of emergency was ­declared in Malaya.  Australia’s involvement in the emergency started in 1950, when aircraft and […]

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