Our history is us: we have way more to lose than facts We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss April 27, 2021 — 12.05am Normal text size Credit:Fairfax Media In order for a country to progress, we constantly need to refer to our past to light our path (“Fears nation risks memory loss as cuts run deep in National Archives”, April 26). If we allow our heritage, culture and history to disappear, valuing only those memories relating to war and conflict, we risk socially engineering Australia into a place whose values are false and shallow. Conservative governments have ruled federally for eight long years. In that time, ambition, monetary success and strident individualism have too frequently nudged aside the common good. If we don’t value the wisdom sequestered in our national memory, the past will indeed be a foreign country.