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The Australian curriculum from 2008 to 2019 aimed to create consistency across states and allow smooth transitions for students. However, the speaker felt that older valuable content was replaced by politically and academically biased concepts. The speaker also mentioned that Australian history and Indigenous history and culture were already being taught, despite claims stating otherwise. Topics like sustainability and multiculturalism were also included. I took the Australian curriculum from 2008 to 2019 when I retired for quite a long time. It was supposed to create uniformity in curriculum across Australia so students could transition seamlessly between states if needed. There were compulsory sections and optional sections and so each individual school chose from within that. I felt a lot of older valuable content was replaced by new concepts that were perhaps politically and academically biased. For example, we were told that Australians didn't know Australian history and that there had been no focus on Indigenous history and culture but in fact that was not true because we had been teaching that throughout all of the curriculums that I had had to implement. Things like sustainability, multiculturalism and so on.