A Land Fit for Heroes. A Social, Cultural and Environmental History of Soldier Settlement in New South Wales, 1916-1939.

挖掘机在澳大利亚社会具有象征意义；成千上万的家庭已经绘制了在第一次AIF服役的亲属的服务记录。该项目将恢复与参加战争的男人（和女人）一样重要的历史实体——归国士兵。它将审视我们的社会如何努力从战争创伤中恢复过来，审视我们的退伍军人返回澳大利亚以及他们如何艰难地重新适应公民社会。士兵移民面临着开拓土地的新战斗。就像今天新南威尔士州地区的许多人一样，他们与孤立、干旱和经济困难作斗争。该项目将评估士兵安置在偏远地区人口中发挥的作用，并评估其长期环境成本。

The digger has an iconographic status in Australian society; thousands of families have charted the service records of relatives who served in the first AIF. This project will recover the returned soldier as important an historical entity as the men (and women) who went to war. It will look at ways our society tried to recover from the trauma of war, examine our veterans' return to Australia and their difficult readjustment to civil society. Soldier settlers faced a new battle in opening up the land. Like many in regional NSW today, they struggled against isolation, drought and financial hardship. This project will evaluate the role soldier settlement played in populating remote districts and assess its long-term environmental costs.