Agora 2020-1 Australian Histories

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Australian Histories | Agora vol. 55 no. 1 (2020)

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REFLECTION/EDITORIAL
	Reflection Dr Rosalie Triolo Editorial Guy Nolch
THEMA Reflections on the theme
	Welcome to Country: Knowledge Marcia Langton This is an extract from the youth edition of Welcome to Country.
	How Can We Make Australian History Global? Frank Bongiorno By telling stories about Australians going out into the world, Australian History can be taught in a way that speaks to today’s students’ ambitions of mobility.
	The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia Michelle Arrow The 1970s saw the origin of many of our most important current public discussions.
	An Illusion of Unity: Irish Australia, the Great War and the 1920 St Patrick’s Day Parade Tim Sullivan The participation of fourteen Victoria Cross recipients, a controversial archbishop and a notorious entrepreneur in the 1920 St Patrick’s Day parade in Melbourne provides context to the bitter political and sectarian divisions of the conscription debates at the time.
	What Do Prime Ministers’ Speeches Tell Us About Historical Attitudes to Immigration? Indigo Coulson How have non-British and non-white immigrants been depicted in the election speeches of winning Prime Ministers throughout Australia’s post-Federation history?
PRAKTIKOS Teaching ideas
	Teaching Migration Experiences: A Free Virtual Reality 3D History Tour and Inquiry-Based Site Study Paul Grover and Bruce Pennay Bonegilla was once a camp for newly arrived migrants. Now students can undertake a 3D virtual tour that uses multimedia resources to inform inquiry-based historical investigations of the migrant experience.
	Members’ Tips About Teaching Australian History HTAV Members We asked HTAV members to share tips and ideas about teaching Australian History.
SUNGRAPHÔ Original research
	Teaching as Truth-Telling: A Demythologising Pedagogy for the Australian Frontier Wars Alison Bedford and Vince Wall Eight guiding principles add to the academic conversation about pedagogies for traumatic historical periods, and help to establish positive practices when teaching the Frontier Wars.
KRITIKOS Reviews
	Reviews available online Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes Reviewed by Kara Taylor, Irymple Secondary College Cazaly: The Legend by Robert Allen Reviewed by Cat Jones, Australian Sports Museum ‘A Secondary Education for All’? A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria by John Andrews and Deborah Towns Reviewed by Jo Dryden, St Mary of the Angels Committed to Learning: A History of Education at The University of Melbourne by Juliet Flesch Reviewed by Sophia Marsden-Smith, Williamstown High School Let My People Go: The Untold Story of the Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 by Sam Lipski and Suzanne D. Rutland Reviewed by Sophia Marsden-Smith, Williamstown High School