HIST106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Correctness, Manning Clark, Ernest Scott
HIST106 Lecture Notes Monday 31st July 2017
Aims of the unit
- To offer a greater understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures,
history and contemporary issues.
- To build an understanding of how the past informs and creates the present.
- To explore how the history we choose to tell can broaden and enhance, or narrow
and limit, our perspectives on the present.
- To explore the diversity of Indigenous Australia and Indigenous Australian
experiences.
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Thinking more about history
- What, in your view, are the best methods/attitudes for good historical practice? (or,
how can we do the best history?)
o Debates
▪ Picking a side and unpacking it.
o Allowing unbiased perspective.
o Be open minded/ willing to be wrong.
o Be prepared to change your mind.
o If ou’e tig to ifluee, e lea aout it.
o Be impartial. Look at the facts.
o Thoroughness. Cover as much as you can when looking for evidence.
o Logical and critical thinking.
o Curiosity.
o Non-censoring.
How do we tell Australian history?
- This question invites other questions, such as:
o What is history?
o Why do we want to know about the past?
o What do e ea Austalia? The ladass? The atio? The people?
o What values are reflected in the history we tell? Who/what do we see as
important?
o Does it speak to something that we see as Australian national values?
o Does it contribute to the way we live now?
o What is the purpose of telling Australian history?
o Is it for Australian peoples to understand who they are in the present?
o Whose history do we tell?
Taditioal Telligs (what we are not going to talk about)
- Australian history begins in 1788.
- Captai Cook disoeed Austalia.
- Austalia as tea ullius ood’s lad.
- Australia was peacefully settled.
- Idigeous Austalias & thei ultue delied o disappeaed ith the aial of
oe adaed people.
Tea Nullius ad elated setiets, past ad elatiel peset
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