For three decades the Australian War Memorial has been the focus of a struggle between two ways of knowing the past, writes Dean Ashenden on our partner site, INSIDE STORY

WHAT the Rudd government proposes for schools - better IT infrastructure, beefed-up national curriculum, improved transition to training or work, a focus on the basic skills of the disadvantaged, better reporting on schools’ performance - are all achievable and worthwhile, but they are not even new, let alone “revolutionary.” The government is doing itself, the...