National History Challenge 2010 from labonno Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 29 sec
✓ Published: 30-Nov-2010

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The Asia category prize, which was proudly sponsored by the AEF, was won by Helen and Labonno of St Monica’s Primary School in Footscray.nnThe Year 6 students’ project focussed on the remarkable story of Australia’s Muslim cameleers. The cameleers, who came from Afghanistan and Pakistan, helped to open the continent’s interiors in the mid-1800s.nnHelen explained why they undertook the project. ‘They are the unrecognised pioneers because nobody appreciated their contribution to Australi