Submitted by Paul Daley on
John Batman, Lachlan Macquarie, Angus McMillan – some of the colonial leaders we eulogise and commemorate despite being deeply unworthy
It’s well beyond time we rethought who, as a nation, we’ve eulogised in statuary, bricks, mortar and nomenclature.
History – and many of those who’ve written it for centuries in Australia – has afforded far too much respect to pioneering (mostly) men who’ve been responsible for the mass murder of this continent’s Indigenous people. Such history has been reflected in the dedication of public buildings, the names of streets, suburbs and electorates, and the erection of statues, to precisely the wrong people.
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