‘Denying history is simply lying’: how the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers

Dhoombak Goobgoowana co-editors James Waghorne, Ross Jones and Marcia Langton at the University of Melbourne. Photograph: Tamati Smith/The Guardian

Nazi apologists, massacre perpetrators, grave robbers, racists and eugenicists were hugely influential across the entire history of the University of Melbourne, according to its own research.

The university has published a shocking account of the dark side of these erstwhile heroes of Australian academia in a book it hopes will tell a greater truth about the institution and its dealings with Aboriginal people.