2Australian NZ derogatory A view that emphasizes the negative aspects of Australian history, especially by focusing on the dispossession and ill treatment of the indigenous people.
he denounced the black armband view of history
Compare with white blindfold
Example sentencesExamples
- This tendency continues to this very day with historians speaking disparagingly of a "black armband" approach to history.
- He has stated he won't allow a "black armband" view of Australian history to dominate the classroom.
- I accept that Australia's history involved great injustice, oppression and dispossession of indigenous people, wholesale death by disease and significant levels of violent killing, though less than claimed by the most extreme "black armband" adherents.
- His "black armband" view of indigenous history has made him a favourite target of the reactionary right.
- It refutes the "black armband" view of Australian history and seeks to overturn the concept of white guilt and black victimhood which have become embedded in the national psyche.
- He declared: "I profoundly reject the black armband view of Australian history."
- He has refused to accept the black armband version of our history.
- If they represent what some have called 'a black armband view of history', I for one wear it as a mark of sorrow and as a commitment to reconciliation.
- The fact that Cathie clearly has an opinion does not make her a "shill" for the 'black armband' mob.
- What so-called 'black armband historians' do is expose the myth that there was this unified time and place where everyone lived happily together in a community.