Tony Abbott thinks school students should be taught British history:
Mr Abbott said he was in favour of world history but said the focus should be on Britain.
"People have got to know where we came from, they've got to know about the ideas that shaped the modern world, and in a very significant sense, the modern world has been made in England," he said in Canberra.
"I think (the curriculum) needs to be history that pays credit where it's due." "We are a product of western civilisation, in particular we are a product of English-speaking civilisation."
He is dead right. Australia is part of the Anglosphere, its culture, politics and institutions are based on our British history. Understanding British history and the Empire is understanding our heritage.
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