Doug Munro Locates the Infamous Ryan–Clark Contretemps in Australia’s ‘History Wars’ single work   review  
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'For mostly practical reasons of time and distance, Doug Munro has relied on documentary sources and email correspondence to analyse the perplexing story of Manning Clark’s publisher defaming his prize author three years after his death. Oral history would have helped fill in some of the gaps in the account, but the book manages to explain in sufficient detail the contours of the episode, and to place it in the larger story of Australia’s History Wars. Key figures in the new Albanese Ministry promise an end to these History Wars, but, for reasons that are implicit in Munro’s account, the struggles to define Australian history and how it has been ‘manufactured’ are likely to continue unabated.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 19 no. 3 2022 25055104 2022 periodical issue

    'We write this Editorial fresh from the first face-to-face Australian Historical Association conference in three years, held skilfully and graciously by Bart Ziino and fellow convenors at Deakin University’s Geelong Waterfront campus in Victoria on the theme of ‘Urgent Histories’. At the conference dinner, we were delighted to award Nancy Cushing the Marian Quartly prize for best article published in History Australia the previous calendar year for her formidable piece ‘#CoalMustFall: Revisiting Newcastle’s Coal Monument in the Anthropocene’ (18.4). The citation reads:

    An immediately engaging article on the history and future of the Jubilee or Coal Monument in Newcastle, New South Wales. Cushing’s work adds a critical focus on climate to recent debates about commemorative structures. It argues for the removal of the Coal Monument but not its total erasure. Instead, Cushing presents a sensitive case for the monument’s reframing elsewhere as well as for the temporary erection of a counter-monument in its place. Combining activist, archival, and theoretical approaches, her article demonstrates the multiple important uses of history – emotional, political, academic, and local.'

    (Editorial introduction)

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