Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Education, Science and Training said in the course of her remarks in discussing the issues related to her history conference that I had stated two totally inconsistent positions. One was to support the idea of narrative history, and the other was to suggest that there ought to be a different priority associated with the advent of her conference, in which she implied that, because I thought it was not the best of ideas, I opposed the teaching of narrative history. I think it is very important that we all know who Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson were.

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