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Friday Essay: The ‘Great Australian Silence’ 50 Years On
While we now have important interventions into Aboriginal history that amplify Australia’s uncomfortable past, such as Lyndall Ryan’s massacre map and the Uluru Statement from the Heart, those reverberations continue to cause anxiety.
It’s 50 years since the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the 1968 Boyer Lectures a watershed moment for Australian history. Stanner argued that Australia’s sense of its past, its very collective memory, had been built on a state of forgetting, which couldn’t “be explained by absent-mindedness”: