It is the beginning of something seismic and defining for Australia's national identity and our understanding of conflict both here and overseas. 'Telling the truth should be above politics' 'We will have more to say about that in due course,' Nelson said this week. The War Memorial chair, former Howard government minister Brendan Nelson, revealed the Memorial's governing council had decided they would have a 'much broader, a much deeper depiction and presentation of the violence committed against Indigenous people, initially by British, then by pastoralists, then by police, and then by Aboriginal militia'. Historians and Indigenous leaders have long argued that what occurred in this country was a series of battles and wars - a resistance against colonisation - and the failure to tell that history in the most important institution telling stories of war was a great silencing of truth. The Australian War Memorial has attracted fierce criticism for its minimal depiction of the frontier wars.

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