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- Title: Writing the Lake Boga Failure (Lake Boga Mission Station, Victoria, Australia) (Essay)
- Author : Traffic (Parkville)
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 354 KB
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This article examines three people's interpretations of the events surrounding the 1856 closure of the Lake Boga mission station, a Moravian-run Aboriginal mission station in Northern Victoria. Writing (history) is a political act and the events or factors that different people emphasise in their writings inform the reader of the writers' biases and also of the intents behind their stances. By analysing the reasons behind their biases before these histories are combined, a more complex and richer understanding of events can be created. While this piece is not singling out a wrong to write/right, it will suggest that writing from one perspective, although not 'wrong', is a simplistic way of understanding the truth of history. When I first saw the theme of this issue of Traffic--Write the Wrongs--I searched through my mental filing cabinets trying to locate one specific point in my field of study which has been until now incorrectly reported. As a historian in training, I thought that I could easily find a date or historical event that, through my research, I had uncovered to be false or misleading. There were a few little facts here and there in my own research that I toyed with pulling out, but it was the bigger question of the writing of history which I kept coming back to. For most people, history is the search for truth. While I agree with this statement fully, I have to question my own concept of 'truth'. With this comes the realisation that there are many versions of the 'truth' and that my writing is informed by the politics and social voice of today. History, for me, is as much about the past as it is the present and the future. The days are long gone when history was purely a list of dates, places and names and as post-modern thought influences us we continue to deconstruct, contextualise and create cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, multi-dimensional perspectives and interpretations of history, ourselves and our place within this constructed environment.