Australia 
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/12/2020
‘No Slavery in Australia’? These Pacific Islanders Tell a Different Story
The Black Lives Matter movement has offered a rare moment for the descendants of plantation laborers brought aboard ships in the 19th century to make their family histories known.
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SOURCE: Public Books
6/19/2020
Pencil Leaners
by Jeff Sparrow
As Australia considers government support to artistic workers inspired by the US New Deal, important differences in context should be observed.
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SOURCE: ABC (Australia)
5/25/2020
Australia Heading Into New 'Fire Age', Warns Global Fire Historian
Thirty years ago, Stephen J. Pyne wrote the definitive history of fire in Australia and has just released an updated version of his book, Still Burning Bush.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
1/26/20
Are We All Australians Yet?
by Tom Engelhardt
In movie terms, think of Australia as the previews. For most of us, the main feature is still to come. The problem is that the schedule for that feature may not be found in your local paper.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/21/20
Ancient aboriginal aquaculture system older than Stonehenge uncovered by Australia wildfires
“It shows us they had a high level of technical skill, understanding of physics and of the natural environment.”
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11/24/19
The Best Work in History Illuminates Life Now: An Interview with Angela Woollacott
by Erik Moshe
Historians must actively participate in the arenas of public discourse, to promote the vital role of our discipline in civic society.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3/4/19
'We want to say sorry': the historian whose great-uncle led the Coniston massacre
Only by engaging with ‘real ugliness’ can healing begin, Liza Dale-Hallett says.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/19/19
A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.
The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.
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SOURCE: ABC New (Australia)
6-30-18
Outcry over word "Aboriginal" continues as historians push for ban on changing certificates
The decision by a West Australian bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents has created an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians across Australia.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6-15-18
Australian university students dress as Ku Klux Klan and in blackface
Charles Sturt University investigates ‘politically incorrect’ themed student party.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-15-18
Australia’s Least Likely Tourist Spot: A Test Site for Atom Bombs
Maralinga, a barren stretch of land in South Australia’s remote western desert, is the country’s only former nuclear test site open to tourists.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12-6-17
In Australia, historians and artists have turned to cartography to record the widespread killing of Indigenous people
Chief among them is historian Lyndall Ryan, who says her fellow historians are in denial about the extent of the massacres.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5-31-17
Slavery remains in the modern world
The number of slaves worldwide is estimated at 45.8 million. Australia is now trying to put a stop to it.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-26-17
China Bars Historian at Australian University From Leaving, Lawyer Says
Feng Chongyi, a Chinese-born professor at an Australian university who has often criticized Beijing’s crackdown on political dissent, has been barred from leaving China and is being questioned by state security officers as a suspected threat to national security.
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SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald
12-2-16
New South Wales (Australia) to offer reparations to Stolen Generations
The government will acknowledge the harm inflicted on Aboriginal communities by the forcible removal of children.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4-1-16
Discovery, settlement or invasion?
by Peter Kilroy
The power of language in Australia’s historical narrative.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3-31-16
Australia’s ‘history wars’ reignite
Debate over 'discovery' of Australia is alive and well – in the mind of one Sydney newspaper editor.
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SOURCE: Abc News
11-26-15
Letters collection offers unique glimpse into ordeal of Australian aborigines
Letters by Noongar people pleading for the return of their stolen children or requesting access to the old age pension after a lifetime's work will come together in a new project aimed at uncovering a hidden side of Indigenous history.
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SOURCE: Brisbane Times
7-13-15
Australia: Vietnam War's medical history to be rewritten to correct record on Agent Orange
The volume is not intended to "rewrite history but instead be informed by 25 years of new knowledge and interviews with Vietnam War veterans."
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3-17-15
Historian Joan Beaumont says the Anzac legend needs to change
“There is some evidence that certain immigrant groups, particularly those that come from countries which are war zones, have difficulty engaging with the Anzac legend.”
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