The Board of Studies has proposed a review of Indigenous Australian content as one of its top priorities for the new NSW HSC history curriculum.

The move puts the NSW organisation, in charge of educating the largest number of students in Australia, further at odds with the direction of the National Curriculum, designed to unify the education systems of the states and territories.

In September, former Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne announced that significant changes to the national curriculum by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority would "strengthen references to Western influences in Australia's history".