Saving the Nation’s Memory Bank
The National Archives of Australia is at risk due to chronic underfunding. Many important records...
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Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW
Most Aboriginal people are already historians. They hold knowledge of family ancestry, culture and...
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Australian government must negotiate a treaty with First Nations people
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Lidia Thorpe With 26 January looming, many Australians will...
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Stop telling students to study STEM instead of humanities for the post-coronavirus world
Alan Sears, University of New Brunswick and Penney Clark, University of British Columbia Finally,...
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Secondary school textbooks teach our kids the myth that Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gatherers
Robyn Moore, University of Tasmania In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe writes that settler...
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Slavery Compensation: Who Got Paid?
With the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1837 the British Government presided over the largest transfer of wealth to individuals in history. No portion of this was paid to the people who were enslaved. Instead it went to thousands of slave owners across the globe as compensation for their loss of ‘assets’.
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The Australian Government doesn’t want humanities graduates
The Australian government has announced that the fees for humanities degrees will more than...
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Putin’s New History of World War 2
Russia’s President has decided to revise the role of the USSR in and immediately before the...
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