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?
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.
