UniMelb publishes ‘truth-telling’ tome, Internet Archive is the latest cultural heritage organisation hit by denial-of-service attack and Spunk Records closes, marking another loss for Australian music.
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‘Denying history is simply lying’: how the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers
New book is truthful about University of Melbourne’s problematic past for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
A shocking new book published by Melbourne University Press seeks to “tell a greater truth about the [University of Melbourne] and its dealings with Aboriginal people.” The first of two truth-telling volumes, Dhoombak Goobgoowana (translated as ‘truth-telling’ in the Woi Wurrung language) reveals a string of University staff, alumni and conspirators who were Nazi apologists, eugenicists, grave robbers and who participated in massacres of Aboriginal people and others who withheld information about Aboriginal peoples’ remains held by the University.
