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Henry Lawson

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Henry Lawson

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Henry Lawson is criticizing the education system for failing to teach Australian history to most children in public schools, even after a hundred years since the country's founding. He finds it embarrassing that so few students know basic facts about their own nation's past.

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