Australian history

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  

  How Should the Australian War Memorial Address the Nation's War on the Indigenous?

  The pressure to depict the heroic exploits of Australian forces in service of the Crown has chilled discussion of the nation's internal military history and how it should be publicly acknowledged. Changing leadership of the body responsible for commemoration is an opportunity to take a new course. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  12/1/2021
  

  Australia's Spy Agency Identified Climate Risk 40 Years Ago; The Government Protected the Coal Industry Instead

  "Concerns from high levels of government show that from the beginning, the country was seeing the climate change issue through the prism of its fossil fuels."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3-10-14
  

  Historian shines a light on the dark heart of Australia's nationhood

  Henry Reynolds says the frontier war – his term for the violent dispossession of Indigenous Australians – raises questions of global importance about the ownership of an entire continent.

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• SOURCE: The Australian
  12-12-13
  

  Ancient Aussie gun find predates Captain Cook

  A Darwin boy discovered the bronze cannon at Dundee Beach.