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Misleading the young

The national curriculum substitutes raw emotion for hard learning

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

Occasionally our political representatives will say things which stand the test of time, but more than often, they do not. One example which springs to mind is a comment made in 2004 by the then federal education minister Julie Bishop, who optimistically proposed that the creation of a national curriculum would wrestle education out of the hands of the left-wing ideologues occupying state bureaucracies and give it to a national board of studies comprised of educators from the ‘sensible centre’.

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Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation at the Institute of Public Affairs.

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