The claim that the Australian War Memorial (AWM) tells a "sanitised and incomplete story" of our history (Opinion, May 29) and that recognition of Indigenous history is lacking, is misleading and just factually wrong.
The notion of "Australian Wars" is an unsubstantiated invention - there was no such thing. Localised conflicts between Indigenous groups and settlers (and occasionally police) do not constitute a war - deaths and suffering undoubtedly occurred, but that does not make it a war.
