This sounds like a positive change, definitely a much better grounding in Australian history than I received at that age. It is pretty wild that you can live in a colonial country without ever being taught what colonisation means for indigenous peoples but that is the world we’ve been living in until recently.
Odd? We covered a bunch of this in the 90s in my state.
Shit it’s even embedded into our early years framework, so even 0 year olds are being introduced to these topics.
Why is NSW just doing it now?
Eughhh. This is covered in history every year from primary to secondary, it does not need to be a seperate topic. If anything it’s importance needs to be decreased so we can stop having such a Eurocentric knowledge of history.
I find it odd too, i went to a shit hole of a school in a smaller town and this stuff was all just part of the curriculum. Including all the bad things that happened to the indiginious people. So it feeld weird its called out now.
Im pretty sure watching rabbit proof fence is like a mandatory movie at some point too https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
Never covered in my state in the 90s. At least not in my schools
Which state did you attend school in? I went through high school in South Australia during the 2000s and in this age bracket Australian history was focused on stuff like Gallipoli, famous “explorers”, etc. Earlier education was the same. Any references to Indigenous Australians were whitewashed examinations of culture, like traditional hunting.
We defs didn’t study this at school in 2000. Just like the stolen gen. None of the massacres and defs non of the resistance.
Aboriginal people were reduced to non participants in history. A group of people whites acted on, but did not act themselves.