00:00For generations there's been a debate about how Australia's history has been taught.
00:08Australian studies is currently in a very bad state. He says it's unjust to Aborigines.
00:13To teach that Australia started in 1788 is an out and out lie.
00:19Often politicised and disputed.
00:22People have got to know where we came from in a very significant sense. The modern world has been made in England.
00:29For four years the Uruk Justice Commission has been making an official record of colonisation in Victoria.
00:36Next month it will hand down more than 100 final recommendations.
00:41It's expected some of those will focus on how Victoria's history is taught in schools.
00:47By learning about the past from First Peoples perspective, we can better understand how that past connects with now, the present.
00:58Dozens of Victorians, including the Premier, have told Uruk their education on First Nations history was inadequate.
01:06I did not know of the massacres, I'm ashamed to say.
01:10They had nieces come along, they would have NAIDOC week, they would have questions.
01:17Not really being able to answer a lot of the questions was confronting.
01:21And they're moved by the truth telling.
01:24It's a gift to the children of our country.
01:28And Uruk has heard the teaching failures are ongoing.
01:32I don't think that Aboriginal history is actually taught enough at school because there are so many other things to our history.
01:39Like we have different clans, different tribes, different languages.
01:45Education experts say changing the curriculum will be challenging given histories and stories differ in regions across the state.
01:54But they say developing a framework is the vital next step.
01:58It's going to be impossible for us to actually achieve reconciliation without authentic, honest and at times uncomfortable conversations in the classroom.
02:09A bid to close the gap in history across Victoria's schools.
02:13A bid to close the gap in history across the state of the school picture is not always real.
02:24A bid to close the gap in the schools and a small part of the school be able to address all the issues.
02:27It's a Phi Phi Phi Phi Phi and a Surrey University.
02:29Aafaopoulosá, a Uruk.
02:31What are the first and several other things?
02:33I know we're ready to do it but it's time to come up.
02:35It's time to come up with our school for the school.
02:37We are ready to come up with us.
02:39And we're ready to go to school.
02:40We're ready to come up with you to the teacher's community.
02:41Please leave the school to get us all the time.
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