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The article discusses the announcement by Australian education minister Christopher Pyne to review the former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard Government's National History Curriculum. It discusses the legacy of Western Civilisation in the National Curriculum's history subject which demonstrates the absurdity of having a government-controlled single curriculum. Also it suggests the need for focusing on teaching awareness of other cultures and their own histories.

The article offers the author's views on the decline in the number of students enrolled in Australian History and Australian Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia. The author noticed that students of the twenty first century are more focused internationally than the nationalism in the seventies which adopted a vision of Australia and of its past. Moreover, today's generation are driven by dreams of utopian future in which racism, sexism and class struggle will be driven away.

This article points out the discrepancies in history syllabus in Australia. The recent "history wars" imbroglio revealed that progressives control the public bodies which set the agenda in history studies. The new draft syllabus for 2004 has omitted both the 1860-1888 period of great prosperity and expansion and the 1950-1965 Menzies period altogether. Leaving these out gives a distorted slant to Australia's history. The gap in chronology means that no topic can be pursued in a continuous way. Three-quarters of the course is now focused on the second, more recent century of European settlement-surely an imbalance.