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Flat White

A truly toxic welcome

3 October 2024

2:06 AM

3 October 2024

2:06 AM

‘Who’s Captain Cook?’ should not have been a surprising question coming from a six-year-old commencing Catholic school having left a government school. For his older sister, the curriculum vacuum which the feats of our pioneers and nation builders once occupied is filled with Sorry Day, a permanent Sorry wall, letters to the Stolen Generation, being told on Anzac day that the evil Anglos excluded Aboriginals from being Anzacs, choosing and drawing your own spirit animal, revering the digging stick, and much more.

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