Honest History

Wominjeka! Yumalundi!*

‍We pay respect to First Nations people and to their Elders past, present and emerging. This website was developed in Kamberri (Ngambri and Ngunnawal people) and Naarm (Kulin Nation) on land that always was and always will be Aboriginal and has never been ceded. The website contains information and images (including images of people who have died) that may cause distress to First Nations people. 

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Honest History promotes balanced consideration of Australian history by offering contesting, evidence-based interpretations to students, teachers, universities, journalists and the public. We challenge the misuse of history to serve political or other agendas.

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Honest History website: ten years on and we are winding back a bit; but for the Australian War Memorial and the Australian Frontier Wars, see our sister site, defendingcountry.au

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‘The Australian War Memorial must properly recognise and commemorate the Australian Frontier Wars as an essential part of Truth-telling and as a first step to reframing Australian national commemoration.’

A summary of events at the Memorial from September 2022 to September 2023: dithering and dissembling and mixed messages.

Action Plan for Frontier Wars recognition, commemoration

Peter Stanley reviews David Marr’s Killing for Country, about the murderous Queensland Native Police (white officers)

The Big Build at the Australian War Memorial: total $548m (and counting)

The Anzac Parade facade of the Memorial, February 2024 (supplied). See the bladed wall emerging from the scaffolding? Compare with remarks from the Memorial at various times (eg here) that its facade would be unchanged by the redevelopment. Ha!

Ben Roberts-Smith and damaging the Anzac Legend

Latest: Stokes’ Seven West Media has fallen into a dark hollow; War Memorial stumbles towards a position (sort of) on BRS.

Looking back

* Wominjeka means ‘welcome’ or ‘come with purpose’ in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Yumalundi means ‘Hello’ in the Ngunnawal language of the Canberra traditional owners.

[Broken links on this site: Broken links are inevitable in a ten-year old site, due to other sites’ redesigns and deletions and to effluxion of time. Our automated broken link checker keeps us informed and we fix breaks, if necessary, but please notify us at admin@honesthistory.net.au of any broken links encountered.]

 

 

 

 

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