Congratulations to Ross L Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton on the publication of their edited volume Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, vol. 1: Truth (Melbourne University Press). Dhoombak Goobgoowana acknowledges and publicly addresses the long, complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne. It is a book about race and how it has been constructed by academics in the University. It is also about power and how academics have wielded it and justified its use against Indigenous populations, and about knowledge, especially the Indigenous knowledge that silently contributed to many early research projects and collection endeavours. This is a history that, in the words of one editor, is ‘supposed to cause discomfort’, but also elucidate in ‘a more complete way’ the truth about the history of the University of Melbourne and its celebrated historic figures. Congratulations to the editors and authors on this important contribution to truth telling.