History
How Indigenous history is taught in NSW schools
Insufficient teacher knowledge and discomfort about confronting content can mean students graduate with gaps in their knowledge.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Good Weekend
Indiana Bones, the Melbourne archaeology students and the fossil 'jigsaw puzzle' that wowed the world
After painstakingly gluing together more than 100 fossil fragments, Angeline Leece and Jesse Martin stood back and gazed in awe. What they saw would rewrite humanity's family tree.
- by Jane Cadzow
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Heritage
'Backward step': NSW government slams Commonwealth over Harbour review
A federal-state stoush has erupted over the future of some of Sydney Harbour's historic landmarks, with the Berejiklian government claiming it had been largely shut out from a review of the former defence sites.
- by Peter Hannam and Deborah Snow
Opinion
UK
Australia’s deep connection with enslavement
New research shows that massive slavery compensation payments helped fund Australia's settlement by the British.
- by Georgina Arnott
Opinion
USA
Censoring history makes the past impossible to grasp
Removing or damaging statues hinders our understanding of history and does nothing for real social justice.
- by Tom Switzer and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Opinion
Opinion
Transform statues to make us question the past
Statues are often invisible to most of us, even when we walk past them every day. But in the past week they have been swept up in a wave of unrest as we have questioned our history and who we are.
- by Philip Dwyer
Black Lives Matter
'Absurd and shameful': Winston Churchill statue sealed in steel ahead of protests
Boris Johnson has lashed out at threats to Britain's statues and warned Black Lives Matter protests have been "hijacked" by extremists.
- by Bevan Shields
Indigenous justice
Tearing down statues reveals problem but no solution
How long until the mob comes for Captain Cook, for Lachlan Macquarie, for John Batman?
- by Chip Le Grand
Opinion
Northern Territory
The toppling of statues is enriching not erasing history and it has thrilled my heart
Why do people panic when the imperfections of history are pointed out?
- by Julia Baird
Analysis
Black Lives Matter
Kicking over Britain's statues is a dead end
The unpopular truth is that removing statues of controversial figures is a cause lacking mainstream support.
- by Bevan Shields
Black Lives Matter
Sydney statues under historic microscope
After events in Europe, statues of figures from Australia's colonial past are under scrutiny.
- by Tim Barlass