The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is unique among the former settler Dominions in our reluctance to acknowledge as warfare violent conquest and dispossession of Indigenous peoples. The national war museums of Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa all contain exhibits dedicated to military conflicts between First Nations and European colonisers, yet the AWM has for decades refused to heed calls for ... (read more)
Jeremy Martens
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Jeremy Martens is currently chair of the Department of Classical and Historical Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on South African, Australian, and British imperial history and is the author of Empire and Asian Migration: Sovereignty, Immigration Restriction and Protest in the British settler colonies, 1888–1907 (UWAP, 2018).