ESH390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Australian Nationalism, Peer Pressure, Myall Creek Massacre
11 Oct 2018
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The cult of forgetfulness emerged in the late nineteenth century, at a time when australian nationalism was increasing and the colonies were moving towards federation (reynolds 1999: 92). I have spoken tonight of the need to guard against the re-writing of. Australian political history to ensure that our history as a nation is not written definitively by those who take the view that we should apologise This black armband view of our past reflects a belief that most australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. john howard 1996. In response to the mabo decision: they have no pride in their country and they strive mightily to melt it down and recast it, furtively, in a new self deprecating and much diminished mould. -- the term ethics was used from the first lecture with cohort 1.
