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Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth

History and Australia’s Future

Mark McKenna

Written by

Mark McKenna

Read by

Mike Bishop

Length

3 hrs 9 min

Rating

4.5 / 5

Series

Quarterly Essays

Publisher

Audible Studios

Released

2018-05-09

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Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing. This is an urgent essay about a nation’s moment of truth.

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