![]() I am a character in the book myself, and will consider the ways in which we frame big-picture history through our own experiences and how we remember it. It was a year when the history wars were acted out on a new stage with the opening of the National Museum of Australia, and one when many Australians felt disappointed that by the time of the Centenary of Federation we had failed to reconcile with Indigenous people. Others, including the launch of Wikipedia, the rise of Amazon, and the collapse of Ansett, not so much. Some, such as 9/11, Tampa and the Pacific Solution, the war in Afghanistan, George W. In my talk I will reflect on key events and individuals and the broader themes – some nascent, others well evolved – that prompted me to turn the book’s title into a statement, rather than a question. Before I delivered the final manuscript to the publisher I removed it. ![]() The contract I signed for my book had, at my insistence, a question mark at the end of ‘The Year Everything Changed’. Blackheath History Forum 2018 Program Topics and Speaker BiographiesĪugust 4: PHILLIPA McGUINNESS ( author and publisher) Was 2001 really the year everything changed? ![]()
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