"Some talk of the “history wars” raging in Australia. The word “war” is mistaken. Controversy, not war, will continue …"

"One lesson of history is that every gain has its potential loss. The highest human achievements carry the danger of p…"

"The slow decline of Christianity prepared the way for new Utopias and doomsdays. Indeed some of the new views of the …"

"Mapmakers of Europe and navigators of the Indies once thought Australian seas washed the isles of gold. Even after na…"

"The compound of bigness and communism made Soviet Russia very much an ogre in the 1920s and accentuated her isolation…"

"With the help of hindsight it is easy to imagine the stone-age migrants moving along the shortest possible route to A…"

"The convict era gave Australia a high English and Irish population and a predominance of men, a tendency to disdain a…"

"The continent had to be discovered emotionally. It had to become a homeland and feel like home. The sense of overpowe…"

"I do not accept the view, widely held in the Federal Cabinet, that some kind of slow Asian takeover of Australia is i…"

"The argument by white and black Australians that the events of 1788 are primarily to blame for the plight of many Abo…"