{"product_id":"refugees-and-rebels","title":"Refugees and Rebels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndonesian Exiles in Wartime Australia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn accounts of wartime Australia the influx of over 5,000 Indonesian men women and children has been largely overlooked. These people were military personnel, merchant sailors, civilians and even political prisoners of the Dutch, all evacuees from the Japanese occupied Netherlands East Indies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey arrived as subjects of the Dutch colonial empire, and the majority of them left after the war as rebels – supporting the fledgling Indonesian republic which Soekarno had proclaimed when the Japanese surrendered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book tells the fascinating story of the Indonesians’ engagement with White Australia as they were dispersed to cities and country towns and of the repercussions when their struggle for independence was supported at grassroots level by their Australian friends, by unionists, particularly the Waterside Workers Federation and Seamens Union and eventually by the Chifley Labor Government itself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jan Lingard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42629689049257,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/refu.jpg?v=1664674165","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/refugees-and-rebels","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}