'Grossly inaccurate' Indigenous history lessons must be overhauled

Tim Perkins

By Tim Perkins
Community contribution / November 18, 2019

Young Dark Emu – A Truer History is possibly the most important book ever written for Australian school children.

It’s time we challenged the historical narrative that Aboriginal people were simply ‘hapless’ hunter gatherers.

Author and Bunorong man, Bruce Pascoe, has dedicated the book simply to ‘The Australians’. The book is an offshoot of ...

This story appeared in the November 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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