Canberra Liberal apologises for writing book that paints rosy colonisation picture and skips frontier wars

One exercise in History of Australia, a student workbook and teaching manual, asks pupils to discuss how Aboriginal people were blessed' by the British coming

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Peter Cain, the ACT's shadow attorney general, has apologised wholeheartedly" for a 2002 workbook he wrote which does not mention the frontier wars and paints a rosy picture of how Christian settlers helped First Nations peoples.

In History of Australia, a student workbook and teacher's manual published by Light Educational Ministries, Cain wrote that when the British arrived, some were afraid of the Aboriginals; some treated them badly".

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