Honest History

Honest History promotes balanced consideration of Australian history by offering contesting, evidence-based interpretations to students, teachers, universities, journalists and the public. We challenge the misuse of history to serve political or other agendas.

Honest History makes donations from book royalties to support secondary school history teachers and early career professional historians

Heritage Guardians: a campaign against the proposed $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial

Total Australian spend on Anzac centenary is around $A600 million – or $1.1 billion if you include proposed War Memorial extensions

Derek Abbott reviews Geoffrey Blainey’s memoir, Before I Forget, a narrative of emergence as man and historian

Tony Abbott has form on commemoration but is the wrong choice for the War Memorial Council: David Stephens writes

Richard Broinowski on Hugh White’s new book, How to Defend Australia

John Shield on the soldier settlers of Ubobo, Queensland (picture)

Evidence from Indigenous elders about massacres in Far North Queensland (Tim Bottoms)

Brett Holman reviews a reissue of Ross Smith’s 1919 memoir (edited by Peter Monteath) of a historic flight

Lucas Jordan reviews Bruce Coe’s book on the 1919 origins of rowing’s King’s Cup

Derek Abbott reviews former Director Steve Gower’s book on the Australian War Memorial

Doug Morrissey reviews a collection on Irish settlers in South Australia (picture)

Looking back

Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been