With history, you have to take the bad with the good

Glen Humphries
September 18 2017 - 12:00pm
The recent defacing of statues in Hyde Park - including this one of Captain Cook - has highlighted the darker side of Australian history. Picture: Cole Bennetts
The recent defacing of statues in Hyde Park - including this one of Captain Cook - has highlighted the darker side of Australian history. Picture: Cole Bennetts

Australians have an uncomfortable relationship with our own history.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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