The history wars is a term most closely associated with a public and political controversy in Australia from the 1990s and 2000s over how Australian history, particularly the frontier violence and dispossession experienced by Aboriginal peoples following European colonization, should be taught and commemorated. The debate pitted historians and commentators favoring franker acknowledgment of this history against others who argued it amounted to an unbalanced or excessively negative account of national history, and it shaped debates over the national school history curriculum.
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