Teaching The Australian Wars
From Hey History! by UTS Impact Studios
April 29, 2026 · 1h 14m · Season 2 · Episode 8
About this episode
The episode discusses how to teach the Frontier Wars with honesty and care, featuring insights from various experts in education and Indigenous advocacy.
How do we teach the Frontier Wars with honesty, care, and confidence? You'll hear from filmmaker Rachel Perkins, leading academic and advocate Professor Marcia Langton, Culture is Life CEO Belinda Duarte, senior secondary history teacher Bill Lewis, and Professor Melitta Hogarth of Ngarrngga at Melbourne University. Together they dig into the questions many teachers are sitting with: What does truth-telling actually look like in practice? How do we teach histories of colonial violence with care? How can non-Indigenous teachers approach this work without fear of getting it wrong? We're sharing a recording generously provided by Culture is Life and Ngarrngga, two organisations working at the intersection of First Nations knowledge, education, and advocacy. Culture is Life is an Aboriginal-led not-for-profit amplifying the voices of First Nations young people and championing education as a pathway to justice and truth-telling. Ngarrngga is committed to ensuring all educators have access to Indigenous knowledge systems and the tools to embed them meaningfully in their teaching. Both organisations produce practical, curriculum-aligned resources to support teachers in this work…
People in this episode
Guests: Rachel Perkins, Professor Marcia Langton, Belinda Duarte, Bill Lewis, Professor Melitta Hogarth
Topics covered
- Frontier Wars
- truth-telling
- colonial violence
- education
- Indigenous knowledge
- teacher resources
Keywords
- Frontier Wars
- education
- Indigenous knowledge
- truth-telling
- colonial history
- teaching resources
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Culture is Life, Ngarrngga, Melbourne University
Products: The Australian Wars book
Books & works: The Australian Wars
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