Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 69 by Mark Mckenna

Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 69 by Mark Mckenna

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

Mark McKenna in a lecturer in Film, Television and Radio at the University of Staffordshire. He has published on cult film and video distribution and is the author of Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

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ISBN 13	9781760640507
ISBN 10	1760640506
Title	Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 69
Author	Mark Mckenna
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Black Inc.
Year published	2018-03-19
Number of pages	144
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