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.
Heritage Guardians: a campaign against the proposed $498m extensions to the Australian War Memorial
Senator Steele-John speaks out against arms company donations to the Australian War Memorial
Elizabeth Farrelly, architecture critic, asks whether the ‘dull, wasteful, overblown and smug’ War Memorial expansion is the best Australia can do
Richard Tanter looks at government papers on the tortuous history of the Pine Gap facility
Diane Bell reviews Bruce Pascoe’s Salt: Selected Stories and Essays
Tony Abbott has form on commemoration but is the wrong choice for the War Memorial Council: David Stephens writes (picture ABC)
But, he’s the pea! And he has said this.
And maybe he is the right choice after all, for an institution like the Memorial is becoming?
Bobbie Oliver in Perth: does the Memorial really deserve this?
Looking back
Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been