Abstract
ABSTRACT In post-invasion Australia, English has been a key instrument of colonisation. English education was tasked with producing subjects both loyal to the Australian nation and the British Empire with little recognition given to people from other languages and cultures, least of all First Peoples. Despite Australia now being considered a successful multicultural nation, it remains haunted by the ‘white possessive’ of the Frontier. In this essay we interrogate the tensions between language education policy, curriculum, and practice arising from Australia’s incapacity to come to terms with its colonial wounds: an incapacity starkly revealed by the failure of the 2023 ‘Voice’ to parliament referendum.
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