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Is tehre any way that the different Australian colonies, after defeating various Aboriginal tribes during the process of colonial settlement, could've then, a la the British Empire with other defeated foes such as the Scottish hHghlanders & Gurkhas, have then co-opted these 'savages' into their own colonial native regiments, for the purposes of both internal defence & external service further afield ? There were various Native Police forces recruited during the 19th C (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Police_Corps), who were mainly used to conduct massacres against members of rival tribes- but WI these Aboriginal frontier forces were retained as part of the colonial defence forces, then also, with Federation, incorp[orated somehow into the nascent Commonwealth defence force ?