AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
IF THE PRIME MINISTER is so much in favour of the teaching of Australian history, why does his government go to such lengths to obstruct scholars from revealing and writing about that history?
There are some aspects of Australia's history that are only recorded in documents controlled by governments. They include the inter-governmental relations between the Commonwealth and the states and our constitutional relations with the United Kingdom and the Queen. These documents are usually kept secret for at least thirty years and sometimes even longer. By the time thirty years have passed, histories have already been written without the benefit of primary evidence, and ...