Honest History

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.

The ‘sacred’ War Memorial that destroyed itself

Heritage Guardians: a campaign against the $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial: latest update 14 December

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John Myrtle reviews a book on what a visit to Australia by a black American jazz band says about White Australia in the 1920s

What do those words ‘Australian’, ‘War’ and ‘Memorial’ really mean? Parsing a ‘sacred place’

Chris Sullivan on the case for a tradition of Australian folk music

(Then) Education Minister Tudge tries to bully the history profession as the curriculum changes

David Stephens on AUKUS, AUSMIN, the submarines and the lessons of history; with selected articles from other sources

Ben Roberts-Smith (innocent until found guilty), Kerry Stokes, Paul Brereton, Brendan Nelson, Matt Anderson, the War Memorial

Looking back

Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been