Submitted by Paul Daley on
It’s time to scrap plans for the Sir John Monash Centre and reallocate money earmarked for Anzac commemorations towards a proper Indigenous memorial
The federal government should ditch its plans for the $100m-plus Anzac Sir John Monash “interpretive centre” on the western front in Europe and redirect the money to a much-needed national keeping place for the stolen remains of Indigenous Australians.
Countless tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were killed on the Australian frontier after the European invasion in 1788 as a direct result of British colonisation.
Related: Black Anzac: the life and death of an Aboriginal man who fought for king and country
A keeping place would stand as a beacon of conscience in Australia
Related: At Poisoned Waterhole creek I tell my son about the slaughter of our people | Stan Grant
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