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Professor Eleanor Bourke (left), chair of Yoo Rrook Justice Commission, the first formal truth-telling process into injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria, at the smoking ceremony at its launch. Diego Fedele/AAP

‘Why didn’t we know?’ is no excuse. Non‑Indigenous Australians must listen to the difficult historical truths told by First Nations people

Heidi Norman, University of Technology Sydney and Anne Maree Payne, University of Technology Sydney

Non-Indigenous Australians need to actively seek the truth about past violence and injustice against Indigenous Australians.
Aboriginal Tent Embassy 50th anniversary, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 26 January 2022. Mick Tsikas/AAP

Distance, dispassion and the remaking of Australian History

Tim Rowse, Western Sydney University

Anna Clark’s latest work scrutinises the role History has played in nation building and the shaping of Australian culture, but her book has an absent philosophical centre.

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