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Thomas Mayo

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We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history

Wikipedia articles related to Australia are overwhelmingly centred on cities, new research has found, with negative…
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Defending Country Patron Henry Reynolds on what the King did not say

Professor Henry Reynolds sums up the King's recent visit to his people Down Under
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Why it’s time to move beyond truth-telling to Indigenous resurgence

In the early 1840s, the first European to invade the country between the Murumbidgee and Galari rivers shot camp dogs…
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Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with ‘charismatic authority’

Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions tells a story that is already well known.
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The Voice Referendum cannot be the last word on 65,000 years of black and white history

Recent articles in Inside Story and The Conversation on Australian history, contrasted with War Memorial rhetoric
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Guardian Australia's Paul Daley on Australia's contempt for its veterans - and its commemorative blind spots

Paul Daley on the Royal Commission on veterans' deaths and suicides, Veterans' Health Week and Remembrance Day
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Referendum anniversary demands we work harder for First Nations justice

Media release from Reconciliation Australia on the way forward