Isabelle

"Now," Isabelle purred. "Turn to page 394 in your textbooks. We are looking at Wars in Australia, or wars Australia was involved in."

Half her class was drooling, as per normal. She wore skinny jeans and a crop top that barely hid her... assets. And her pale skin seemed to entice the boys. She smiled sweetly, then glared. "Page 394!"

They all jumped to comply. She could also scare the shit out of them. She let her students one by one read a page. When they finished, Isabelle slammed the book shut, making her whole class jump. She smiled. "Now, I want you to take your books, and put them in this basket."

She set her bin on the table. They all looked at each other, confused. Was this a test? "NOW."

They hurried to comply as she leaned against her desk, watching them. Some winked at her as they went. She waited until they were all back in their seats before she pulled out a matchbox. She pulled one out, lighting it. They all watched her as she watched it burn down to her fingers, then lit the matchbox itself on fire with the match and tossed them all in the bin. The books went up in flames. The class shouted and yelled. She simply waited, feeling the warmth of the flames beside her tickling her cold skin. "Now," she said quietly. "I am going to tell you some REAL Australian history."

She walked back around her desk, writing on the whiteboard.

White settlement in Australia

"Now," she coed, leaning on her desk and the boy's attention immediately went down her crop top. "Tell me what you know of white settlement."

And so they listed off things. How the whites settled on the land peacefully, though using the aboriginal as house cleaners and servents until the referendum. Isabelle clicked her tongue. "It's amazing how almost everything you all just said was wrong."

She sat down at her desk. "The whites did not settle peacefully. They killed thousands of aboriginals, in all sought of ways. They brought diseases and sicknesses that the aborigines had never had before, and that their immune systems weren't capable of protecting them from. They shot any they found on white land."

She shook her head. "And back then, the aborigines had different tribes that feuded and fought over land. The white settlers took aborigines from different tribes and forced them to police another tribe. Many died that way. Killed by there own people because the whites interfered."

She looked at her students. "Things didn't even begin to change until the Mabo case. After that, things started to change. The referendum. The apology for the stolen generation. All of it."

She snarled slightly. "But they still judged peoples brains on the colour of their skin. To light, to dark. Even after the referendum, people looked at the collar of the skin on their back. If it was too dark, the didn't get to go to school."

It was quiet for a moment as she got up and wrote another topic on the board.

WWI & WWII

"Now I'm sure when I say this you all think of Anzac's and Gallipoli. I'm going to give you a few more things to add to your history."

She twirled her hair around her finger. "The Rats of Tobruk, for one. The Rats of Tobruk were soldiers of the Australian-led garrison that held the Libyan port of Tobruk, during the Siege of Tobruk in World War Two. The siege started on 11 April 1941 and was relieved on 10 December.

Between April and August 1941, some 35000 allies, including around 14,000 Australian soldiers, were besieged in Tobruk by a German–Italian army. The garrison, commanded by Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, included the 9th Australian Division(20th, 24th, and 26th Brigades), the 18th Brigade of the 7th Australian Divison, four regiments of British artillery, and the 3rd Indian motor brigade.

Between August and October, most of the original garrison was replaced by British, Czechoslovakian and Polish troops. The port continued to be held by the Allies until its surrender on 21 June 1942."

They were all scribbling in her notebook as she wrote another one on the board. One they hadn't heard of before.

Emu war

At the classes confused looks, she smirked. "Yes, this is a real thing before you all ask. The white settlers declared war on the emus."

The class burst out with questions, not understanding. "They seriously declared war on a giant bird?"

"Ye-p," she purred. "They sent out hunting parties and tried to kill them. It was the greatest defeat Australia ever suffered, In my opinion anyway."

"We lost to birds?!"

Isabelle laughed, the boys sighing as they watched her. "Indeed. They failed spectacularly."