The Resource Moment of truth : history and Australia's future, Mark McKenna
Moment of truth : history and Australia's future, Mark McKenna
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- Summary
- 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 passionate debates and fresh 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 a superb account of a nation's moment of truth. "The time for pitting white against black, shame against pride, and one people's history against another's, has had its day. After nearly fifty years of deeply divisive debates over the country's foundation and its legacy for Indigenous Australians, Australia stands at a crossroads - we either make the commonwealth stronger and more complete through an honest reckoning with the past, or we unmake the nation by clinging to triumphant narratives in which the violence inherent in the nation's foundation is trivialised." Mark McKenna, Moment of Truth
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 139 pages
- Note
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- Includes bibliographical references
- Title from cover
- "Correspondence: 'Without America' Ely Ratner, Michael Green & Evan S. Medeiros, Patrick Lawrence, David Shambaugh, John Fitzgerald, Merriden Varrall, Andrew Shearer, Kim Beazley, Hugh White"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9781760640507
- Label
- Moment of truth : history and Australia's future
- Title
- Moment of truth
- Title remainder
- history and Australia's future
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark McKenna
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 passionate debates and fresh 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 a superb account of a nation's moment of truth. "The time for pitting white against black, shame against pride, and one people's history against another's, has had its day. After nearly fifty years of deeply divisive debates over the country's foundation and its legacy for Indigenous Australians, Australia stands at a crossroads - we either make the commonwealth stronger and more complete through an honest reckoning with the past, or we unmake the nation by clinging to triumphant narratives in which the violence inherent in the nation's foundation is trivialised." Mark McKenna, Moment of Truth
- Cataloging source
- AIEA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McKenna, Mark
- Dewey number
- 305.89915
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Quarterly essay,
- Series volume
- QE69
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indigenous peoples
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians
- Indigenous peoples
- Australia
- Australia
- Australia
- Australia
- Australia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Moment of truth : history and Australia's future, Mark McKenna
- Note
-
- Includes bibliographical references
- Title from cover
- "Correspondence: 'Without America' Ely Ratner, Michael Green & Evan S. Medeiros, Patrick Lawrence, David Shambaugh, John Fitzgerald, Merriden Varrall, Andrew Shearer, Kim Beazley, Hugh White"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061994490
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 139 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760640507
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028974383
- Label
- Moment of truth : history and Australia's future, Mark McKenna
- Note
-
- Includes bibliographical references
- Title from cover
- "Correspondence: 'Without America' Ely Ratner, Michael Green & Evan S. Medeiros, Patrick Lawrence, David Shambaugh, John Fitzgerald, Merriden Varrall, Andrew Shearer, Kim Beazley, Hugh White"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061994490
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 139 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760640507
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028974383
Subject
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Australia -- History -- 21st century
- Australia -- Race relations
- Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
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