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A1.5 Key Dates Establishing History/Culture Wars<br />

1993 April 23: Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Blainey’s ‘The Black Armband view <strong>of</strong> history’ Latham Memorial Lecture<br />

1994<br />

1995<br />

February: Wayne Goss, Queensland school curriculum and “invasion”<br />

November 30: Report <strong>of</strong> the Civics Expert Group, “Whereas the People...Civics and Citizenship Education”<br />

1996 March 28: John Howard election victory/Paul Keating defeat<br />

October and November: John Howard enters history/culture wars debates as Prime Minister<br />

1997 May 27: John Howard’s Australian Reconciliation Convention speech<br />

November 14: Henry Reynolds coined the phrase ‘white blindfold’<br />

1998<br />

1999<br />

2000 Tony Taylor’s report on History education “The future <strong>of</strong> the past” (included in education section)<br />

2001<br />

2002<br />

2003 Stuart MacIntyre and Anna Clark’s book The History Wars enters the debate to wide academic and general<br />

public interest<br />

2004<br />

2005<br />

2006<br />

2007<br />

Failure <strong>of</strong> critical literacy: Wayne Sawyer, Editorial in English in The Australian<br />

January 25: John Howard Australia Day Address to National Press Club<br />

March: Humanities Alive 2 textbook and terrorism controversy<br />

August 18: Bob Carr statement predicting end <strong>of</strong> SOSE<br />

October: National History Summit (included in education section)<br />

February 7: Launch <strong>of</strong> Dumbing down, written by Kevin Donnelly<br />

November 24: John Howard election defeat/Kevin Rudd election victory (included in end <strong>of</strong> history culture<br />

wars section)<br />

2008 February 13: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a National Apology for the so-named “Stolen Generations”<br />

Figure A1.2: Timeline <strong>of</strong> major shifts in the history/culture wars, 1993-2008 (green font<br />

indicates direct connection to education contexts)<br />

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