8 JULY 2008
The National Museum of Australia celebrates NAIDOC Week 2008
with the introduction of an online resource to help teachers and
their students explore the 1967 Referendum and the significance of
this landmark event in Australian history.
"The National Museum's Collaborating for Indigenous Rights website
is a wonderful teaching and learning resource, especially for
middle to upper secondary students in History, Civics and
Citizenship, Studies of Society and Environment, Human Society and
its Environment, Aboriginal Studies, Media Studies, Cultural
Studies and English," said David Arnold, Education Manager at the
National Museum of Australia.
The website contains a rich array of primary source documents
relating to land rights and civil rights from the 1950s, and even
earlier, to the landmark events and decision of the 1970s.
To help teachers and their students make the most of the website,
the National Museum, in association with education writers, Ryebuck
Media, has produced two units of work. The units are based on the
website's extensive evidence; including one which deals
specifically with the 1967 Referendum and another which looks more
broadly at the development of both land rights and civil rights
from 1957 to 1973.
The creation of both the Collaborating for Indigenous Rights
website and associated online units of work is a good example of
the increasing emphasis the National Museum is placing on the web
as a means of producing and disseminating quality teaching and
learning materials to education audiences.
The National Museum is now providing much of its education outreach
content online, a strategy that goes hand-in-hand with the overall
objectives of the Museum to provide increasing information about
exhibitions and collections through its website. Teachers and
students can look forward to seeing more and more quality education
resources available online in the years to come.
To access the National Museum's Collaborating for Indigenous Rights
website visit: http://indigenousrights.net.au/
For interviews and more information please contact Dennis Grant
on 02 6208 5351, 0409 916 481; Caroline Vero on 02 6208 5338, 0438
620 710 or media@nma.gov.au
