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like a review sheet, yet it is not. It is suggested to students as the only resource for the topic<br />

“The story <strong>of</strong> Federation” (Department <strong>of</strong> Education, 1988a, p.114). Although one <strong>of</strong> the<br />

most important events <strong>of</strong> Australia’s developing nationhood, it is treated with such brevity,<br />

presented as an unimportant period in Australia’s history as though there is no need for<br />

students to have any sustained engagement with this topic. The curriculum appears to be so<br />

concerned with presenting itself as ‘factual’ and ‘impartial’ that to have curriculum materials<br />

that are explicitly ‘voiced’ would be to not present an accurate or valid history. However, it is<br />

argued here that being devoid <strong>of</strong> character does not in itself make a curriculum any more, or<br />

any less, historically accurate.<br />

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