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While many historians will find that Truth-Telling covers some very familiar ground, its last few chapters send out an important challenge to the way we remember and commemorate some key figures in Australian political history. Reynolds suggests we ask some tough new questions, for example: should Griffith University change its name? Megan Davis and George Williams explain how the Uluru Statement from the Heart, adopted in May 2017, came to be made, what it advocates, and the nature of the constitutional change it seeks. They bring unmatched expertise to their task. Both are professors of law at the University of New South Wales, with extensive experience and high reputations in constitutional law. In addition, George Williams is a barrister and newspaper columnist, while Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble woman from southwest Queensland, was deeply involved in the processes leading towards the …