Kate Grenville’s new book, Unsettled: A journey through time and place, Black Inc., 2025, deals with Australian history from the point of view of a descendant of people who dispossessed land from First Peoples living around today’s Wiseman’s Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of New South Wales. In the book Grenville asks why Australia only commemorates battles fought on distant shores and not here at home. Read more about her questions about why we have 5,000 war memorials around Australia to the fallen in wars fought in foreign lands from the Boer War onwards, but no war memorials to those who gave their lives defending Country on Australian soil. Read more in David Stephens’ article ‘Kate Grenville’s questions about our 5000 war memorials,’ Pearls and Irritations, 6 May 2025:
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05/kate-grenvilles-questions-about-our-5000-war-memorials/
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