States have been warned they risk losing $33 billion over four years in federal funding for schools unless they rewrite the way they teach history.
Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop has stepped up pressure on the states after the Commonwealth-convened history summit in Canberra this week.
The assembled "experts" were scathing in their criticisms of existing courses and recommended Australian history be taught sequentially through primary and early secondary school, and be a stand-alone subject in Year 9 and Year 10.
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