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: excavations (17 November 2021)

Heritage Guardians: a campaign against the $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial: latest update 22 November

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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

Sue Wareham in Independent Australia on the rent-a-mouths lurking around Australian defence policy – in so-called independent think tanks

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