How should we be teaching 'Australian history' in schools?

Update: 2023-08-16

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What were you taught about First Nations' history at school?

Changes are being proposed in NSW to include teaching Indigenous Australians' experience of European settlement for high school students across the state.

This week Teela Reid and Michael 'MC' Christian reflect on what they were taught in school, and how language like 'terra nullius' or stating when Australia was 'discovered' impacts our perception of First Nations peoples both in the present and into the future.

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