Whether the Uhrs has a desire for bloodlust or just thought this was an important job in the colony does not change the murders but points to something more sinister, that you did not need to be evil to opt into a system of genocide, you just had to take a job.
Browsing: Australian history
In the insistence that Edwards and Wolinski placed on pulling apart Dobell’s otherwise unremarkable painting, we see a culture frantically insecure about itself, and needing to define itself within the rigid parameters of history and convention.
The mythology underpinning modern Australia is as vast as our continent; incorporating various influences through a contested, often violent and surprisingly turbulent history. From the burnt orange sands of the red centre to the wiry brown grass of the northern savannahs; from Queensland’s blacksoil plains to the diverse hubbub of Sydney and its turquoise harbour — the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are unendingly interesting and intensely complex.
Exploiting land in Marrickville for profit is a colonial tradition.
The Liberal Party’s attacks on the national history curriculum entrench conservative values and risk dumbing down a generation for political gain.
Recent changes to the National Curriculum may reap uncertain consequences on and diminish history education.
Charting the career of historian Cassandra Pybus via her latest book Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse.
Maritime history without rose-tinted glasses. (Part 2 of 2.)
Cultural entanglements, commemoration and the Tasman Sea. (Part 1 of 2.)
Seb Rees provides a historical account of Australia’s Pacific Island Labourers Act through various letters written at the time.