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I studied abroad in Australia for a semester (from the United States) and took an Aboriginal Studies course and was incredibly glad I did. It was crazy to see the parallels to how the Native Americans were treated/colonized here in the Americas. Truly barbaric stuff. They’ve got something called the Lost Generation where pretty much all of the children born during a certain time period were forcibly taken from their families and forced to become “civilized”.

It was really cool learning about how the aboriginals would do these “prescribed burns” where they would purposefully start small wildfires to burn away the undergrowth, which would in turn enrich the soil with lots of carbon. Really neat stuff

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?

The second world war has also become a standalone mandatory topic, with more in-depth content on the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials and the creation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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.