As Australians, we live in a postcolonial nation - though it can be argued that the term “post” colonial is disingenuous, that we rather live in a neocolonialist society. Neocolonialism is evident through the monumental landscapes of Australia, always worshipping the colonizers and rarely First Nations peoples. Despite hundreds of years of colonial violence, slaughter, land theft, and economic marginalisation, many of the Indigenous cultures of Australia remain standing. The legacies of this brutality are my inheritance as a colonial descendant, a burden which extends to all colonial scions. This research aims to interrogate the role of the monument landscape and monumentalism in neocolonialism. Using practiceled research, I scrutinise the neocolonial state, delineating the threads between colonial conquest and current global crises. Furthermore, this research analyses injustice in postcolonial Australia using the concept of “postmemory” and considers how acts of colonisation are ongoing in Australia. Building upon a foundation of critical postcolonial theory and a deconstruction of the concept of postmemory, I create works criticising the colonial narrative, which also explore the role of colonialism in the global environmental crises.

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