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Killing for Country does brilliantly for one group of families what a robust, locally grounded truth-telling process might do for the whole nation.
Monash Lens In February, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese told Parliament that an Australian government had yet to acknowledge the nation’s true history. The section about the nationwide killing of Indigenous people by European invaders was usually missing. Lynette Russell “We have all failed,” Albanese said. “Truth must fill the holes of our national memory.” The Aboriginal people who died at the hands of the settlers should be recognised, he said. “They, too, died for their loved ones. They, too, died for their Country. We must remember them, just as we remember those who foug...