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Whose wars? The Australian War Memorial and the colonial frontier conflicts

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has criticised the Australian War Memorial's approach to telling the story of historic conflict between Indigenous Australians and European invaders. Few Australian institutions carry more symbolic weight than the Australian War Memorial. It is at once a national shrine, a museum, an archive and a place where military service …

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A candid friend of historiography

A short commentary on the method employed in Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years  “Of making surveys of Christian history, there is no end,” Diarmaid MacCulloch observes in his 1161-page book, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.  Yet he suggests that his approach stands out as more daunting than certain other notable contemporary accounts.[1] As a historian, MacCulloch …

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