The Uluru Statement from the Heart outlines the path forward for recognising Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution.
It was endorsed with a standing ovation by a gathering of 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
By Douglas Newton
According to the fantasy, there is a ‘moral obligation’ toward dead Anzacs – but not to democratise the decisions that would throw live Anzacs into war.
There is no doubting the sincerity of...
Garry Linnell: Advance Australia Fair is just ‘beautiful lies’
Every nation tells lies about itself. It’s how history is made.
Little fibs are buffed and shined and presented as facts. Distortions and exaggerations are given a...
So basically, my father and his children and grandchildren have been paying taxes to compensate those who enslaved our ancestors, and you want me to be proud of that fact. Are you f**king insane???”
And...
The well informed? and university educated?
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
colloquially known as #ScottyFromMarketing
loudly and publicly asserted there was there was
No Slavery in colonial Australia
Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up...
The killing times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain sight.
The stories of “the killing times” are the ones we have heard in...
Euphemisms for frontier massacre
(Genocide:the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.)
While some frontier massacres were widely publicised,...
Of course Australia was invaded – massacres happened here less than 90 years ago
There’s too much evidence of violence in Australia’s past to hide behind euphemisms.
The Founding of Australia, Algernon Talmadge, 1937.
Bryce Barker, University...