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The announcement in January 2015 that Prince Philip had been chosen to receive an Australian knighthood (an honour which itself had been controversially revived the previous year) sparked a fury of debate about honours, and about the continuance of a British connection in Australia's national life. Such debates were not new, echoing earlier arguments about honours as a national or imperial symbol...
Edward M. Curr was a controversial figure in Australian anthropology during its formative period. In his major work, The Australian Race (1886), he used the techniques of comparative philology to develop a theory of Aboriginal racial origins. The most enduring legacy of Curr's publication is its linguistic data, but at the time of its publication it was just as notable for its predominantly negative...
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