Asking Australia for an Indigenous voice isn’t new – it’s been a long and difficult struggle | Indigenous voice to parliament | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#honesthistory Extraordinary essay from historian Tom Griffiths will make you see our history differently and in a way that strongly supports Yes honesthistory.net.au/wp/griffiths-t… Our old, brown Country does not deserve a No vote on 14 October

A “discovery” of historians launching the wonderful Australian Dictionary of Biography Quest for Recognition project at Parl Hse. Great speeches by Prof Peter Yu, Julian Leeser MP, and @LindaBurneyMP plus entries from Mark McKenna, Clare Wright Frank Bongiorno ANUHistory La Trobe University

Shared histories: from The Dreaming & Big Bang to colonial cataclysms, a new nation emerged suffused with grief & wonder, where ancient sovereignty & wisdom could shine as we navigate - together - a living planet shuddering under an assault Tom Griffiths insidestory.org.au/odyssey-down-u…

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The Voice Referendum is the opportunity for 'our greatest ever handshake' in the words of Rachel Perkins Rachel Perkins in her wonderful 2023 Dr Charles Perkins Oration: iview.abc.net.au/video/RV2308H0…

Join us for the 2023 JCPML Anniversary Lecture on Tuesday 24 October! Presented by Emeritus Professor Tom Griffiths, this is an event not to be missed. ow.ly/3hNU50PUuzx

Did you miss out on this year's JCPML Anniversary Lecture? Check out our recording of Tom Griffiths excellent lecture on The world after John Curtin: Geopolitics and the planet: ow.ly/GX9M50Q3NNo

This is a superb lecture by Tom Griffiths, a call for courageous Australian leadership which meets the crisis we are in.

We have received advance copies of THE FIRES NEXT TIME by Peter Christoff, a lucid assessment of Australia’s Black Summer fires, publishing 28 November. Pre-order your copy at all good bookstores or online at: ow.ly/v0ZK50Q2QHn.

Wow! The story of Australia, and the world, in one essay! And a call for us all to rediscover what it is to be brave.

"I was definitely challenged by a lot of what I was encountering in my late 20s that I’d never learned," says @shannynbpalmer.  "There are so many silences in Australian history writing and also lots of what Tom Griffiths refers to as 'white noise'”. satpa.pe/LxXHtIQ

“We need to bring some historical discrimination to debates about what was new about the Black Summer.” Read an extract from THE FIRES NEXT TIME by contributor Tom Griffiths, edited by Peter Christoff, in Inside Story (Inside Story): ow.ly/lp7950Qi90Y.

📚 A Kind of Confession – Alex Miller (Allen & Unwin) Alex Miller is a man of humble origins, and a slow-burning but impressive career – he drops the ‘mask of fiction’ to reveal the intricate depths of a writing life, writes Brigid Rooney (University of Sydney). theconversation.com/in-a-kind-of-c…

Brilliant listen 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 ODYSSEY DOWN UNDER Historian Tom Griffiths says a new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. He wrote this essay for Inside Story & reads it beautifully for #TheScienceShow. abc.net.au/listen/program…