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One certainly might! I suspect I'm quite a bit more antique than you are Caleb, so I'm talking about school in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Australian history back then was mostly about the explorers (who were certainly brave and sometimes foolhardy) who of course did it all on their own - no mention of the help given by Aboriginals in the crossing of the Blue Mountains for example.
It was still triumphalist British Empire stuff back then, and the maps were still mostly coloured pink, even though the Empire had collapsed after WW2. Empire Day, when we had fireworks, was 24 May, which was Queen Victoria's birthday. Boy, were we behind the times! (I grew up in Sydney, so it may well have been different in other parts of Australia.)
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