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Thomas Mayo

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Broken Years, Black convicts and Bennelong: some inadvertent irritations

Comments on five recent books with particular reference to matters of evidence
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War Memorial needs to talk peace says Medical Association for Prevention of War

New report from Medical Association for Prevention of War includes principles to improve the Memorial's treatment of war
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Defending Country President Peter Stanley on Late Night Live on Australia's military history obsession

Summary of ABC Late Night Live segment with presenter David Marr and Professor Peter Stanley
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War Memorial souvenir programs sidling towards recognising the Australian (Frontier) Wars?

Marking the War Memorial's gradual progress towards proper recognition and commemoration of the Frontier Wars
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War Memorial's Annual Report and Year in Review: not without puzzles

Quick review of two recently-tabled War Memorial corporate documents
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Why the Australian Frontier Wars are important: Defending Country repost

Repost of an article that first appeared on Defending Country in November 2023; amended 3 February 2025.
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Truth-telling off the agenda for new LNP government in Queensland

New Queensland government will stop the work of the Truth-telling and Healing inquiry, commenced only in September
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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…