The Australian War Memorial resisted calls for more recognition for years, but a change in leadership has seen a drastic shift in tone.
Frontier conflicts took place across the nation, but they get scant recognition at the national institutional.The Australian War Memorial has signalled that a significant change is on the way in its depiction of the frontier violence that decimated Aboriginal communities upon British settlement.
"I think it's a great change, and we have to ask the Brendan Nelsons why they've been so negative about it, [in order] to bring them forward.Mr Dillon, who has actively campaigned for more recognition of colonial atrocities, said any greater recognition of the violence by national institutions would accord with First Nations peoples view of history."The wars have been here in our face... everywhere [across the country]," he told NITV.
"We have to have the Frontier Wars depicted in every museum, in all the state museums and the [National] Museum," he said. Rodney Dillon welcomed those sentiments as well, agreeing that the true horrors of colonial violence had to be acknowledged in all their depth.
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