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Ready to forget

Examining injustice in Australian history
by
January–February 2026, no. 483

Fault Lines: Australia’s unequal past edited by Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey

Monash University Publishing, $36.99 pb, 336 pp

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Ready to forget

Examining injustice in Australian history
by
January–February 2026, no. 483

Like many edited collections, Fault Lines bears the marks of its origins in a conference, one on ‘Injustice, Survival, Memory’ at the Australian National University in 2022. The editors, in their introduction, explain that the central idea was to use the histories of the Dunera and Queen Mary (ships that carried interned Europeans to Australia during World War II) ‘as a basis for an examination of the theme of injustice in Australian history’.

Fault Lines: Australia’s unequal past

Fault Lines: Australia’s unequal past

edited by Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey

Monash University Publishing, $36.99 pb, 336 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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