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Observances - Hiroshima Day

August 6, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Today is a day I try never to forget.
Why should an event that happened before I was born be one that figures annually in my consciousness?
6 August 1945 was the day that we, the western world, Australia as guilty as the rest, attempted to end the war in the Pacific by dropping an atomic bomb […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian Schools Calendar | Comments (4)

Should July 9 be Australia Day?

July 11, 2008 – 10:16 am

I’m recalling all the controversial discussion we’ve had in the past about the appropriateness of January 26, the date of Cook’s landing at Botany Bay in 1788, and the consequent annexing of Australia to the British Empire by the simple planting of a flag that ignored the rights of the traditional owners, as a day […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, national curriculum, Australian history | Comments (1)