Indigenous Australian History​  

Welcome to Teen Homeschooling Australia's senior Indigenous Australian History units. All units in this area are written and collated by a qualified university tutor with over 10 years experience teaching in the Indigenous Australian school at James Cook University. 

All units are designed to be interesting and engaging, and to help you to understand our indigenous history, where we have come from as Australians, and where we might go in the future. 

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​Australia Day - Change the Date (debate) 

For much of Australia, January 26th (Australia Day) is a reason to celebrate all that is wonderful about living in our country. Though for several years now, Indigenous Australians have been calling for a change of date for Australia Day - why?

This debate looks at the different perspectives in the 'Change the Date' discussion, and asks you to give your perspective on how we can resolve this issue, peacefully, as a united country.  

 ( Part 1) Your task - read first

Online video resources: 

Interesting video asking ATSI people different questions. Good for getting an overall view of Indigenous Australians and how their opinions vary on different topics. 
At 5 mins - talking about Australia Day 
Big Jilawa - a young Australian man, gives his opinions on January 26th and proposes that the change be made to May the 8th (M8 day).
Watch up until 7 mins, 30 seconds. 
A short news piece covering some of the different opinions. 
A short but important piece on Indigenous people's personal views of Australia Day 

How to debate very badly... 

A quick example of how to completely ignore issues, and not debate at all... Don't do this in your essay! 

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