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.

Heritage Guardians: a campaign against the proposed $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial

Total Australian spend on Anzac centenary is around $A600 million – or $1.1 billion if you include proposed War Memorial extensions

Lest We Forget? This book has some stuff worth remembering; David Stephens reviews Lewis Hyde’s A Primer for Forgetting

From the Honest History vault: Anachronism in Canberra as Department of Veterans’ Affairs survives machinery of government changes

Senator Steele-John speaks out against arms company donations to the Australian War Memorial

Stephen Clarke reviews Martyn Brown’s book on the politics of forgetting after Greece, Britain and New Zealand fought in Crete 1941

Elizabeth Farrelly, architecture critic, asks whether the ‘dull, wasteful, overblown and smug’ War Memorial expansion is the best Australia can do

Looking back

Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been