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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy Education reporter

Studying colonisation and Aboriginal resistance to be mandatory in NSW high schools

anonymous students in uniform in a class room
Aboriginal people’s experiences of colonisation will be part of the mandatory history syllabus in NSW high schools. Photograph: Lbeddoe/Alamy

All high school students in New South Wales will study Aboriginal people’s experiences of colonisation for the first time, including the Frontier Wars and the concept of terra nullius, under the state’s reformed syllabuses.

On Thursday, the education minister, Prue Car, released the remaining new curricula for years 7 to 10 history, geography and visual arts, as part of the shift towards explicit teaching.

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