Bonus: How to talk with kids about Australian history

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 an…

Gold fever

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 E…

Convict kids

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 Princes Street Primary School in Hobart tell us what they know about convict ki…

First meetings at Kamay Botany Bay

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 Cap…

The Oldest Classroom

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 class…

Introducing... Hey History!

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 e…