Universities Erasing the Past, Graduates Will Repeat History’s Mistakes: Historian

Universities Erasing the Past, Graduates Will Repeat History’s Mistakes: Historian
People walk past a statue of Captain James Cook stands in Sydney's Hyde Park on August 25, 2017, William West/AFP via Getty Images
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The subject of history is now dead as a discipline and has been replaced by post-modernist theory, an expert from the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) has claimed.

Bella d’Abrera, who is the director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Project at the IPA, said that history as a discipline in Australian universities is no longer a study of the past but something that has turned into a “woke political project.”