A new study shows that workplace priorities for Australian historians make it harder for their work to reach Australian readers – despite strong public interest.
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Australian history has often been written from a southern perspective. But a history of the tropical North sheds light on ‘truth telling’ and questions of race.
Many argue Samuel Griffith, twice Queensland premier and our first chief justice, is guilty of colonial war crimes. Raymond Evans searched for the evidence to nail him but found a different story.
The Australian War Memorial’s pledge to recognise the frontier wars is an end to ‘black armband’ rhetoric. It should now investigate the Aboriginal resistance, and see it as a military operation.
The widespread conflict that accompanied Australian life for 140 years was arguably our most important war. We need a museum telling this story, funded on a par with The Australian War Memorial.
It is 50 years since anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the Boyer Lectures in which he coined the phrase ‘the great Australian silence’. How far have we come since?
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies Global Cultures & Languages, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of History, La Trobe University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Historian, Macquarie University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University