Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   acknowledges the concern of many members of the Australian public who have signed the National Sorry Day Committee petition calling for improvements to the new national history curriculum;

  (b)   affirms the importance of properly acknowledging the past treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our school curriculum; and

  (c)   supports the inclusion:

     (i)   of National Sorry Day and the history of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as a mandated and distinct component of the new national curriculum, to be covered at different stages throughout primary and secondary school, and

     (ii)   of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives throughout the history component of the new national curriculum for Australian schools, starting in early primary school.

to move: