\u003cb\u003eAustralia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past.\u003c/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars, and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThis is an urgent essay about a nationâs moment of truth.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nâThe time for pitting white against black, shame against pride, and one peopleâs history against anotherâs, has had its day. After nearly fifty years of deeply divisive debates over the countryâs foundation and its legacy for Indigenous Australians, Australia stands at a crossroads â we either make the commonwealth stronger and more complete through an honest reckoning with the past, or we unmake the nation by clinging to triumphant narratives in which the violence inherent in the nationâs foundation is trivialised.â âMark McKenna, \u003ci\u003eMoment of Truth\u003c/i\u003e
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