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

这位挖掘者在澳大利亚社会中具有标志性的地位；数以千计的家庭记录了在第一次AIF服役的亲属的服役记录。该项目将恢复归来的士兵，作为一个重要的历史实体，与参加战争的男人(和女人)一样重要。它将考察我们的社会试图从战争创伤中恢复的方式，审查我们的退伍军人返回澳大利亚的情况，以及他们艰难地重新适应公民社会的情况。士兵定居者在开拓土地方面面临着一场新的战斗。像今天新南威尔士州的许多人一样，他们与与世隔绝、干旱和经济困难作斗争。该项目将评估士兵定居在边远地区人口中所起的作用，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.