![]() ![]() The book’s central claim is that Australian Aborigines were not hunter-gatherers, as generations of anthropologists have labelled them: they were agriculturalists. This is largely the result of an acceptance within the education system of the book, Dark Emu, by the self-described indigenous author Bruce Pascoe.Ĭlick here to order your copy of Bitter Harvest Today, much of the content set in place by Gillard is now being updated to accommodate the arrival of a new and far more radical set of ideas about traditional Aboriginal culture and society. The academics and bureaucrats responsible never gave up their objective to make it compulsory for all Australian schoolchildren. Nonetheless, indigenous studies still remain a core concept within the national curriculum. The Coalition opposition under Tony Abbott called it “political correctness run riot” and a ”black armband” view of Australian history, saying it placed too much emphasis on indigenous perspectives and very little on the nation’s British and European political and cultural heritage. ![]() When the curriculum’s compulsory Aboriginal content was published it became a controversial issue. When Julia Gillard was Minister for Education in the Rudd government in 2008 she appointed a committee to rewrite the national schools curriculum from primary school to year 10. ![]()
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