Season’s Greetings to All

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Wongil | Quandong blossom, near Dongara, with the promise from this old place of entangled histories for hope in our common future | photos Bruce Baskerville

Wongil | Quandong green fruit

Wongil | Quandong green fruit

Deborah Gare, Bruce Baskerville and all members of the History Council Committee send season’s greetings to members and friends. After a challenging year and, in many cases, a year that has also provided time and space for reflection and consideration of what lies ahead, the Council is looking forward to a new year and a new decade. There are many pithy sayings that could be repeated here, but perhaps these three quotes, none from historians nor Australians, can give us some brain food for the charting the pathways ahead:

  • History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again (Maya Angelou)

  • You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall (Jawaharlal Nehru)

  • The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history (George Orwell)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to historians everywhere, see you all in 2021.

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