How do you teach and talk about Australian history with kids?  This is a bonus episode for teachers, carers and parents featuring Professor Anna Clark and  Professor Clare Wright.   Teaching and talking about history with kids can be rewarding and challenging.   From their experience studying and teaching history, Clare and Anna tackle questions like:   How can kids in primary school work with history’s complexity?   How can primary students consider the moral lessons of what they're...

What were the Gold Rushes? Why did people from all over the world get ‘gold fever’?   What was life like on the Ballarat goldfields of Victoria, on Wada Wurrung Country?  With so many different groups of people, how did everyone get along?   Did First Nations people mine gold too? What was the Eureka Stockade?  How did the Gold Rushes change Australia?  Students from Preshill Primary School and Westbourne Grammar in Melbourne tell us what they know about the Gold Rushes.  Fred Cahir,...

Why did kids get transported from Britain to Australia? What were their crimes? Did they miss their families?   What was life like as a convict in Van Dieman’s Land, an open air prison on Palawa land?   Students from Sandy Bay Primary School in Hobart tell us what they know about convict kids.  Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Marcelle Mangan tell the story of transportation, convict tattoos and tokens, and convict life at the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart.  They answer kids’ questions and...

In 1770, Captain Cook got secret instructions to find the ‘Great South Land’.   His ship The Endeavour sailed into Kamay Botany Bay, the land of the Gweagal people.  How did the Gweagal people meet Captain Cook and his crew?  How did they communicate?  What happened over the eight days that Captain Cook stayed in Botany Bay?  Students from Marrickville West Primary School in Sydney tell us what they know about this encounter.  Ray Ingrey and Paul Irish, along with Captain Cook’s own...

How did First Nations people learn before books, school and the internet?   What are some of the teaching places on Country? Can a cave or a beach be a classroom?  What’s the role of rock art, like engravings, stencils and prints, in the ‘oldest classroom’?  What are the different kinds of classrooms First Nations kids learn ion today?  Students at La Perouse Primary School in Sydney tell us what they know about how their ancestors learnt on Country.  Wayne Brennan and host Axel Clark...

A podcast all about Australian history where the kids ask the questions.  Go back in time to the Gold Rush. What happened at the meetings between Captain Cook and First Nations people at Kamay Botany Bay? Experience life as a convict kid, and hear how First Nations people learn on Country. Each episode has music, stories, primary sources and sound-rich scenes. You'll hear from Australia's top historians and experts. Listen to our 4 episodes in any order. And, there's a bonus episode How to...