A decade or so ago, the prevalent myth was that the 1967 referendum gave Aboriginal people the right to vote and citizenship. While most now accept this was wrong, as such rights were already held ...

which are very much ‘written up’, bear very directly upon problems of aboriginal belief, this is a grave defect all the more, perhaps, because the book is intended to be popular. Myths and ...

“Aboriginal massacres have been an open wound ... how we teach that history and strip back some of those convenient myths. That includes acknowledging the indigenous population fought a real ...

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Professor Russell McGregor, an Australian history expert at James Cook University, said the citizenship myth arose because the "yes" campaign's messaging went unchallenged in the absence of a "no" ...

he was seeking to draw attention to parallels between the murderous Nazi German campaign against the Jews of Europe and what had happened and was still happening to Aboriginal people in Australia. In ...