The basis of this blog, Freud in Oceania, is the influence of Freud’s ideas within Australian culture and history. There has been some comment in the Australian Press that La Trobe University, my alma mater, had pulled Australian History this year due to low enrolments. It seems that, to the contrary, the subject is alive and well, building on the work of creative historians such as John Hirst, Richard Broome and Marilyn Lake among others. How Australia has found its way into the modern world is an extremely complex story. I am reblogging this post from the La Trobe University Bulletin for your interest.
Australian History and Freud
02 Friday Mar 2012
Posted in Australian History
Freud in Oceania 
I agree Christine on the fundamental importance of learning history, our own so-called Australian history first and foremost, but also other histories and from as many different perspectives as possible.
Indeed… Australia has grown from many histories internationally – European, Asian as well as Indigenous – with as many paradigms and perspectives as become inetegrated into our analysis and writing of history. There is more than one, many, in fact, all an interpretation. I am not sure we can know the past as it was lived.