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.
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Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 months ago
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 learning about these topics.
Why is NSW just doing it now?
trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Which state did you attend school in? I went through high school in South Australia during the 2000s and in this age bracket Australia 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.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 3 months ago
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.
wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Never covered in my state in the 90s. At least not in my schools