The subject of history is now dead as a discipline and has been replaced by post-modernist theory, an expert from the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) has claimed.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.”
“Modern Australia has its roots in Great Britain and the West, and so cannot be understood without an appreciation of that long arc of history,” she said. “However, with post-modernism, we are deliberately being pushed towards a society which has lost that collective memory.”…