Opinion
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The conservative crusade against the history curriculum
The Liberal Party’s attacks on the national history curriculum entrench conservative values and risk dumbing down a generation for political gain.
Analysis
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Westernised history curriculum changes will alienate and disengage
Recent changes to the National Curriculum may reap uncertain consequences on and diminish history education.
Features
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Cassandra Pybus, Truganini and the role of public history
Charting the career of historian Cassandra Pybus via her latest book Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse.
Analysis
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Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Race and Violence on the Beach Frontier
Maritime history without rose-tinted glasses. (Part 2 of 2.)
Analysis
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Mimicry and Memory: Aboriginal and Māori Seafarers during the Age of Sail
Cultural entanglements, commemoration and the Tasman Sea. (Part 1 of 2.)
Analysis
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Australia’s Forgotten Labourer History
Seb Rees provides a historical account of Australia’s Pacific Island Labourers Act through various letters written at the time.
Scott Morrison’s Endeavour voyage politicises Australian history
Scott Morrison’s $6.7 million Endeavour tour is not only guilty of historical inaccuracy, it erases the role of Aboriginal individuals in early colonial Australia.
Features
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Lest we remember
Australian public art whitewashes our uncomfortable past, writes Matilda Surtees.