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Resources for learning about 1800s Australia Please note: Australian history is extremely whitewashed. Despite Aboriginal people living here when Captain Cook arrived, the country was declared Terra Nullius - meaning unoccupied. This resulted both in the colonisation of the country for settlement and as a penal colony and also led to the large scale genocide and enslavement of Aboriginal people. Terra Nullius was not overturned until 1992! Australia has only legally recognised that Aboriginal people inhibited Australia prior to European settlement since then. As such, our laws, culture, and history reflect this. Aboriginal society, culture, architecture, science etc was completely erased from our history books and replaced with a made up story of how Aboriginal people lived prior to colonisation. As such, I STRONGLY recommend people read the book/s Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe (middle school and up) and Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe (elementary school) before looking into Australian history as these books are based off of journals, letters, and other sources from people who lived in Australia during colonisation and the 1800s. This will help give you a truer understanding of Aboriginal society and help you to see the gaps and whitewashing in most Australian history resources. Some links: My Place - 1800s Food Timeline - Day in the Life of a Convict - Daily Life - Turn of the Century - Impact of Early (1800s) Colonisation on Aboriginal Australians - Migration Timeline - Australia in 1800s - Was this article helpful? Was it worth $1.00 to you? Your gift of $1 or more helps to keep this site operating offering encouragement and reassurance to families wanting better outcomes for their children. Beverley Paine with her children, and their home educated children, relaxing at home. Together with the support of my family, my aim is to help parents educate their children in stress-free, nurturing environments. In addition to building and maintaing this website, I continue to create and manage local and national home educating networks, help to organise conferences and camps, as well as write for, edit and produce newsletters, resource directories and magazines. I am an active supporter of national, state, regional and local home education groups.
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and Learning without School! We began educating our children in 1985, when our eldest was five. In truth, we had helped them learn what they need to learn since they were born. I am a passionate advocate of allowing children to learn unhindered by unnecessary stress and competition, meeting developmental needs in ways that suit their individual learning styles and preferences. Ours was a homeschooling, unschooling and natural learning family! There are hundreds of articles on this site to help you build confidence as a home educating family. We hope that your home educating adventure is as satisfying as ours was! Beverley Paine
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