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You grew up in Tasmania. It was all but racially ‘cleansed’ back in the day. I grew up in a town with 45% indigenous population. I learnt about the definition of racism and white privilege from a very young age

I was born in Belfast, I grew up in Queensland, and New South Wales before that. 

At school, like you, when we learned of Captain Cook, we were taught what a hero he was and how he "discovered" Australia. The aborigines were sort of viewed in the same league as the kangaroos.

We certainly didn't learn about killing them and the bloodshed. It was definitely a different story back in those days, remember when used to have a picture of the Queen in every classroom.

Yeah you’re mostly right, certainly about the pic of the queen in every classroom. I did however learn about the Myall Creek Massacre in year 6 in 1978