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Parents of Eastern Suburbs school concerned over ‘divisive propaganda’

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‘James’ contacted the 6PR Mornings program over a colouring-in competition sent home with his eight-year-old daughter for NAIDOC week.

When he looked at the picture her daughter could colour in, he believed it to be ‘divisive propaganda’.

“I walked past and had a look and didn’t think much of it,” he said.

“And then I thought, what’s all of this writing off to the side blurred into the picture,

“I was quite shocked to read slogans like ‘No pride in genocide’,

“A word like genocide to an eight-year-old doing a colouring-in competition just boggles my mind.”

Tap PLAY in the player below to hear Liam Bartlett speaking to ‘James’ and his reaction.

Peter Kurti, Director of Culture, Prosperity and Civil Society Program at the Centre of Independent Studies, told Liam Bartlett that history be taught in a balanced manner.

“Once again, we’re seeing that history is being used as a weapon with which to attack the past,” he said.

“To degrade our sense of national identity and to provoke a sense of guilt and shame in young kids.”

Press PLAY to hear the full interview.

See the colouring-in poster that was sent home with ‘James” daughter:

Credit: Ryhia Dank/ Commonwealth of Australia

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