Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failedPaul Keating’s Redfern and War Memorial speeches, written over 30 years ago, remain a powerful indictment of Australia’s failure to reckon with its past and present, writes Dr David Stephens. Tens of thousands of unknown Australians. “We do know that he was... one of the 60,000 Australians who died on foreign soil [in World War I]. “This Australia and the Australia he knew are like foreign countries.”Indigenous numbers, lands and waters have been decimated since 1788. Dr David Stephens is editor of the Honest History website and a member of the Defending Country Memorial Project, campaigning for the Australian War Memorial to properly recognise and commemorate the Australian Frontier Wars.