‘They have always been in Australia’
Instructors at a prominent university in Australia have been warned not to lecture on the natural historical record of that country; instead, they should teach a creation narrative regarding the origin of indigenous Australian people.
Lecturers at the University of New South Wales “have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that ‘Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years’,” The Australian reports.
Instead, they should state that “Aborigines have been here ‘since the beginning of the Dreaming/s’ because this ‘reflects the beliefs of many Indigenous Australians that they have always been in Australia, from the beginning of time, and came from the land’.”
The concept of “dreamtime” refers to an era “way back, at the very beginning” when “the land and the people were created by the Spirits.”
The teaching instructions came from “a new set of classroom guidelines, which alert scientists to existing language advice,” the paper reports.
From the report:
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