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Formerly ‘Colonies’, the original jurisdictional organisation of Australia into ‘States’ was later extended to include ‘Territories’.
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Parts of this paper have been drawn from a longer chapter by the author on the history of the Australian Curriculum in ACSA’s recent publication: Reid (2018), The Australian Curriculum: Promises, Problems and Possibilities, Australian Curriculum Studies Association: Canberra.
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Reid, A. National curriculum: an Australian perspective. Curric Perspect 39, 199–203 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41297-019-00077-1
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