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 trees have no voice: destroying 100 trees at the Australian War Memorial to build the $498m., 24 000 sq. metres, unnecessary and inappropriate extensions
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Alison Broinowski in Independent Australia on why Australia needs an independent foreign policy
Sue Wareham on not letting the War Memorial becoming something much uglier
Australia’s haunted house: Mark McKenna in The Monthly on how the Australian War Memorial showcases our past and perhaps distorts our future
Amy McQuire on why Australia Day really doesn’t cut it for Indigenous Australians: article in Guardian Australia; new book Day Break (with Matt Chun)
The Spanish flu pandemic 1918-19 that killed 13 000 Australians and 50 million world-wide (with some recent updates)
A build for the times – or an extravagant folly?
Heritage Guardians: a campaign against the proposed $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial
National Capital Authority consultation on ‘early works’ associated with War Memorial $498m project: dozens of trees to be cut down; premature demolition of Anzac Hall; massive excavation at Memorial entrance. Have your say to the National Capital Authority on the Memorial’s ‘early works’ application.
Arms and the War Memorial: let’s spend on health, not arms and submarines
Looking back
Centenary Watch
Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been