John Howard's Australian History Summit is bound to be heated
It's not quite the rumble in the jungle of Muhammad Ali fame, but the Australian History Summit set down for next week is shaping up as an academic prize fight of seemingly immense proportions.
With 23 of the biggest names in history (Geoffrey Blainey, Inge Clendinnen and Geoffrey Bolton, former NSW premier Bob Carr and social commentator Gerard Henderson are just some on the guest list) in the same room to settle once and for all what version of our nation's past schoolchildren should be learning, the debate is certain to be fiery.
Education Minister Julie Bishop, the summit's convener, says she can barely wait. "Suddenly everywhere I go people are wanting to talk history," she says enthusiastically down the phone from Perth.
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With 23 of the biggest names in history (Geoffrey Blainey, Inge Clendinnen and Geoffrey Bolton, former NSW premier Bob Carr and social commentator Gerard Henderson are just some on the guest list) in the same room to settle once and for all what version of our nation's past schoolchildren should be learning, the debate is certain to be fiery.
Education Minister Julie Bishop, the summit's convener, says she can barely wait. "Suddenly everywhere I go people are wanting to talk history," she says enthusiastically down the phone from Perth.