The University of Melbourne’s Ormond College, which in 2011 created a scholarship named after a perpetrator of the 1926 Forrest River massacre.The University of Melbourne’s Ormond College, which in 2011 created a scholarship named after a perpetrator of the 1926 Forrest River massacre.
This is critical. It references the historical blindfold. The cover-up. The turned backs and the awkward crab-walking away without too much of a glance backwards. Take, for example, the deeply shameful case of Daniel Murnane, a first world war veteran who graduated in veterinary science in 1924 then embarked on a research career at the university and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research . In 1950 he obtained his PhD in veterinary science and later became an industry representative on the university faculty.
Indeed. This is ripe ground for further historical investigation and, yes, soul-searching and reckoning. History can be accidentally remiss. It can also be wilfully blinkered, racialised and nationalised, as it has been in Australia and other postcolonial societies where violent dispossession in the name of “progress” and white “civilisation” is too often unquestioningly justified.Each week our editors select five of the most interesting, entertaining and thoughtful reads published by Guardian Australia and our international colleagues.
At a colloquium in late 2019 at the university to parse how the institution might deal with its deeply racist history and painful legacies, Berg spoke of how the place where he stood had always been hostile.
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