It should be compulsory for all high school students to learn the good, bad and downright racist of Australia’s past
, there is only one subject that focuses entirely on Australia’s history – “Australian History”. A VCE subject, it is completed by minuscule, and declining, numbers of year 11 and 12 students. Only 624 of 51,746 students completed the subject in 2021. The overall number of students enrolled in the subject has halved in the last decade. Based on this trend, soon it will be gone altogether.
In 1968 the celebrated anthropologist William Edward Hanley Stanner popularised the notion of the “Great Australian Silence”. He was talking about the airbrushing of Australia’s history: the almost total exclusion of Aboriginal voices and experiences. He said, “What may well have begun as a simple forgetting of other possible views turned under habit and over time into something like a cult of forgetfulness.
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