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Reading on a Rainy Day, 1811 (Wikimedia Commons/McGill Library/George Mills
- Recent posts related to the Heritage Guardians campaign against the $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial can be found in our campaign diary
- John Myrtle reviews Adam Wakeling’s A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves, on Australia’s early history (19 March 2021)
- Some history reads during February (10 March 2021)
- Recent War Memorial news (8 March 2021)
- Alison Broinowski in Independent Australia on why Australia needs an independent foreign policy (3 March 2021)
- Sue Wareham on not letting the War Memorial becoming something much uglier (27 February 2021)
- Anthony Albanese has two different takes on the Frontier Wars in two different speeches (16 February 2021)
- Four history reads for a wet weekend, including Henry Reynolds on Australia Day and wrapping ourselves in the flag (6 February 2021)
- Two new appointments to the Australian War Memorial Council – but still no historians on it (5 February 2021)
- Australia’s haunted house: Mark McKenna in The Monthly on how the Australian War Memorial showcases our past and perhaps distorts our future (4 February 2020)
- Amy McQuire on why Australia Day really doesn’t cut it for Indigenous Australians, particularly when they try to explain it to their children: article in Guardian Australia; new book Day Break (with Matt Chun) (27 and 31 January 2021)
- Michael Piggott reviews Doug Morrissey’s third volume on the thug and criminal psychopath, Ned Kelly (25 January 2021)