ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a delineation of some of the numerous controversies surrounding governmental and parliamentary recognition of the Armenian, Hellenic and Assyrian genocides. It focuses on the Commonwealth of Australia because the Island continent nation has played a uniquely broad set of roles with regard to the genocides of the indigenous peoples of Anatolia that is disproportionate to its usual influence on the world stage. Resolutions and proclamations by elected officials seem to be viewed by both supporters and denialists as validations of the historicity of the genocides. Arguably the important form of memorialization of genocide is through formal education systems. The phenomenon of denial of the genocides of the Ottoman Empire's indigenous Christian peoples is the refusal on the part of the perpetrators, and their active and tacit supporters, to accept and to deal with the responsibility for their actions. Victims and their descendants have the right to contribute to the public memory, through memorials to their personal experiences.
