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Bias at the National Museum.
TWO AND A HALF years after its opening, and in the wake of an insightful review of its operations and the content of its exhibitions by a review panel led by La Trobe University's John Carroll, one has a sense that the winds of change are beginning to blow through the galleries of Canberra's National Museum of Australia.
In September 2001, in these pages, Keith Windschuttle pointed to the NMA's "Snapshots of Australian History" gallery as a prime example of the ideological bias that permeates the museum as a whole, citing as a particularly egregious example the gallery's attribution of the referendum on enfranchisement of the Aborigines to Gough Whitlam (it was ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Bias at the National Museum.