Imperial and Indigenous perspectives on Queensland history

The University of the Third Age is an international organisation with a flourishing membership of Brisbane senior citizens. My wife, Ann, and I offered eight terms of African history and then took a ‘sabbatical’, teaching a one-year course in Queensland history. We were joined on the teaching team by Julie Ballangarry, currently nearing the end of her doctoral studies at Griffith University after teaching in a range of Queensland schools. She adds an Indigenous perspective to our own approach derived from life experience in diverse imperial settings and Queensland bureaucracies. Together, we offer reflections on the gaps and limitations of some of the current approaches to Queensland history.