Any meaningful shift in policy will need to amount to more than acquiring and hanging new artwork in a dedicated space

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The Australian War Memorial’s recent vague commitment to a “much broader, a much deeper depiction” of colonial violence against Indigenous people risks being compromised by an absence of detail and sound historical context.

In late September Brendan Nelson, the chairman of the memorial’s council, said the organisation had decided on a “much broader, a much deeper depiction and presentation of the violence committed against Indigenous people, initially by British, then by pastoralists, then by police, and then by Aboriginal militia”.

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