Throughout its short history, colonial Australia has suffered from a severe anxiety
surrounding its national identity. This essay argues that in limiting its selfhood to the virtues …

Explores the issue of Australia's ongoing difficulties in establishing an independent national
identity. He then traces these difficulties to what he identifies as' unresolved issues' in …

Since colonisation, history has been whitewashed to suit the socio-political aims of the
settler. The $50 million redevelopment of the landing site of Captain Cook, disingenuously …

In the last twenty years, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have more openly articulated
different ways of understanding their pasts and futures and the opportunities and obstacles …

The contemporary context of Australia cannot be understood in isolation from its colonial
past. As a powerful force of modernity seeking to defy geographical boundaries and …

This essay argues that Australia, while having made some substantive progress in the social
and political reclamation of Indigenous rights, still maintains a powerful sense of …

Australia remains unique among settler societies in not signing treaties with local
Indigenous peoples, nor recognising their prior occupation in foundational documents like …

Abstract Recounts of Aboriginal Australian history stand as a jarring reminder of the
dissonance at the heart of the modern Australian autonomy. Failing to comprehend the truth …

Indigenous curricula content, including particular narratives of Australian colonial history are
highly contested in contemporary Australia. How do white Australians understand Australia's …

In our book Uncanny Australia, Jane Jacobs and I argue that postcolonialism brings both the
good news and the bad news; at the same time, we never say that postcolonialism exists …