Draft curriculum attracts criticism from education minister

Friday April 30, 2021

Alan Tudge is concerned proposed changes to the national curriculum focus too heavily on Indigenous history at the expense of western culture.

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge (AAP Image/Diego Fedele)

Under draft changes, students would learn how Australia’s British colonisation was experienced by Indigenous people as an invasion.

The Education Minister said it was good to include more emphasis on Indigenous history but expressed concern the draft failed to strike the right balance.

“We should honour our Indigenous history and teach that well,”…

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