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Defending Country President Peter Stanley on Late Night Live on Australia's military history obsession

Summary of ABC Late Night Live segment with presenter David Marr and Professor Peter Stanley
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War Memorial souvenir programs sidling towards recognising the Australian (Frontier) Wars?

Marking the War Memorial's gradual progress towards proper recognition and commemoration of the Frontier Wars
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War Memorial's Annual Report and Year in Review: not without puzzles

Quick review of two recently-tabled War Memorial corporate documents
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Why the Australian Frontier Wars are important: Defending Country repost

Repost of an article that first appeared on Defending Country in November 2023; amended 3 February 2025.
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Truth-telling off the agenda for new LNP government in Queensland

New Queensland government will stop the work of the Truth-telling and Healing inquiry, commenced only in September
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We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history

Wikipedia articles related to Australia are overwhelmingly centred on cities, new research has found, with negative…
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Defending Country Patron Henry Reynolds on what the King did not say

Professor Henry Reynolds sums up the King's recent visit to his people Down Under
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Why it’s time to move beyond truth-telling to Indigenous resurgence

In the early 1840s, the first European to invade the country between the Murumbidgee and Galari rivers shot camp dogs…