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The 'black armband' view of history is a phrase coined by Australian historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey in his 1993 Sir John Latham Memorial Lecture. He contrasted this view with the Three Cheers view of history. A historian is a person who studies history. ...
Professor Geoffrey Blainey AO (born 11 March 1930), is recognised as one of Australias most significant and popular historians. ...
The phrase is used pejoratively by some Australian social scientists, politicians, commentators and intellectuals about historians who are seen to be writing critical Australian history 'while wearing a black armband' of mourning and grieving, or shame. Look up pejorative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Terms like SOSE (Studies of Society & the Environment) not only refer to social sciences but also studies of the environment. ...
A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office. ...
A commentator is an individual who discusses social, political or cultural issues or events, typically in a public context; synonyms include pundit. ...
An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ...
The history of Australia began when humans first migrated to the Australian continent from the north, at least 40,000-45,000 years before present. ...
Armbands are strips of cloth or other distinctive material that are wrapped around the upper arm. ...
Shame is a psychological condition and a form of religious, political, judicial, and social control consisting of ideas, emotional states, physiological states and a set of behaviors, induced by the consciousness or awareness of dishonor, disgrace, or condemnation. ...
Some of the opponents of this critical historiography argue that Australian history should tell a story of individual struggle, heroic British cultural triumph and growth. They want to give primacy to the story of ANZAC and the digger. They see these as being the foundation of the Australian nation. They see the official policy, practice and treatment of Australia's indigenous peoples since settlement as humane, and maintain that any specific instances of mistreatment are aberrations. Heroine, the feminine of hero, should not be confused with heroin, the drug. ...
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front. ...
Digger was a popular term used to describe Australian and New Zealand soldiers during the First World War. ...
Indigenous peoples are: Peoples living in an area prior to colonization by a state Peoples living in an area within a nation-state, prior to the formation of a nation-state, but who do not identify with the dominant nation. ...
They strongly contest interpretations of Australia's history since 1788 that argue that the history is marred by both official and unofficial imperialism, exploitation, ill treatment, colonial dispossession and cultural genocide. 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
See also colonialism Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial conquest or settlement, or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. ...
The term exploitation may carry two distinct meanings: The act of utilizing something for any purpose. ...
In general, the word colonial means of or relating to a colony. In United States history, the term Colonial is used to refer to the period before US independence. ...
Cultural genocide is a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political or military reasons. ...
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing...
The black arm band theory of history also advances an argument that Australia is dominated by left-wing intellectuals and is one part of the History Wars occurring in contemporary Australia. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...
The History wars are a public debate over the interpretation of history. ...
John Howard's involvement in the National Museum of Australia controversy and Keith Windschuttle's claims about Tasmanian settlement constitute arguments within this theoretical perspective. John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the countrys 25th and current Prime Minister. ...
Central garden of the National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia first opened its doors to the public in March 2001 in the nations federal capital city of Canberra. ...
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is an Australian right-wing historian and journalist who is the author of several books, including Unemployment (1979) which criticises media treatments of unemployment and advocates a socialist response, The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia, a critical analysis...
Emblems: Flora Tasmanian Blue Gum Fauna none Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Slogan or Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ...
- The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. (John Howard - 1996 Sir Robert Menzies Lecture).
Particular historians and histories that are challenged include Henry Reynolds and the histories of massacres, particularly in Tasmania but also elsewhere in Australia. John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the countrys 25th and current Prime Minister. ...
Henry A. Reynolds, (born March 1, 1938), is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlement of Australia and indigenous Australians. ...
The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ...
Emblems: Flora Tasmanian Blue Gum Fauna none Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Slogan or Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ...
The argument is that there are individuals, academics and a general segment of society, as well as the Indigenous populations of what is now known as Australia, who see Australian history as a one-sided story of oppression. Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the arbitrary and cruel exercise of power in a society or social group. ...
The converse view is that until thirty years ago the history of Australia was a 'white blindfold' history. It ignored invasion of sovereign territory, dispossession, the massacres and resistance of the Indigenous inhabitants, and maintained that the country was peacefully settled. In the last thirty years historians have sought to correct this view of colonial history.
The basis of the historical argument is partly methodological; there is an argument about the value and reliability of written records and oral tradition. There are systematic issues of bias and perspective in both indigenous oral sources and colonial written and oral sources.
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Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ...
The Tasmanian Aboriginals are the indigenous people of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. ...
Poster issued in Van Diemens Land during the Black War depicting Lieutenant-Governor Daveys policy of friendship and equal justice for settlers and aborigines. ...
Van Diemens Land was the original name used by Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. ...
Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ...
Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia. ...
This is a list of massacres of Australian Aboriginal people, for discussion of the historical arguments around how to understand these massacres see the articles on: the History Wars and the Black arm band view of history plus the section on impact of European settlement in the Indigenous Australians article. ...
The Myall Creek Massacre was a massacre of twenty-eight Aboriginal Australian people by twelve white stockmen and squatters on 9 June 1838, at the Myall Creek sheep station near Inverell, in northern New South Wales. ...
Stolen Generation is the term commonly used to mean the Australian Aboriginal children who were removed from their families by Australian government agencies and church missions between approximately 1900 and 1972. ...
The History wars are a public debate over the interpretation of history. ...
External links - Mark McKenna, Different Perspectives on Black Armband History Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Paper five 1997-98
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