Schools around Australia will now prioritise teaching the culture, perspectives, and history of ‘First Nation Australians’ in the subjects of History, and English under a newly proposed curriculum that has been opened up for public review.
Under the new curriculum, students will learn that ‘First Nation Australians’—the new term for indigenous Australians—perceived the First Fleet’s arrival as an invasion, and will no longer learn about the ancient civilisations of the Meditterrean in year 7 and instead will take ‘Deep Time History of Australia’, which focuses on Indigenous history.
