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Australia s education minister has raised concerns proposed changes to the national curriculum focus too heavily on Indigenous history at the expense of western culture.
Under draft changes, students would learn how European colonisation was experienced by Indigenous people as an invasion, which critics said risked turning Australia into a nation of cretins .
Education Minister Alan Tudge said it was good to include more emphasis on Indigenous history but expressed concern the draft failed to strike the right balance.
Mr Tudge did acknowledge it is particularly pleasing to see mathematics standards lifted in the draft however he slammed a proposal to teach times tables at an older age
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Subscriber only Schools will teach kids how to dob in paedophiles, stand up to bullies and say no to sex, in a modernised Australian curriculum to tackle the trauma of sexual abuse and family violence. Refusal skills and negotiating consent for sex will be taught to teens, while younger children will learn about inappropriate touching and how to find help. Contraception, sexual consent, and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and bloodborne viruses through sex or drug use will be taught in physical education classes in Years 9 and 10, when students are as young as 14.
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Sky News host Rita Panahi says it’s imperative for the education minister to step in and address the critical issue of education, so it isn’t “further degraded by activists and cultural Marxists” under the proposed national curriculum changes.
“The review into the curriculum was ordered by the federal government – a supposedly conservative government,” Ms Panahi said.
“But you might as well have Adam Bandt in charge given the output of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority who yesterday released their revised framework.
“To be frank it’s a dog’s breakfast of intellectually vacuous virtue signalling and regressive race-obsessed revisionism.
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A wide-ranging review of the Australian school curriculum has recommended broad revisions to what is taught to the nationâs primary and secondary students, including giving greater emphasis to First Nations culture.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority has proposed removing references to Australiaâs âChristian heritageâ, and teaching that many people consider British settlement an invasion.
There could also be changes to the way technology and maths is taught.
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Heraldâs education editor Jordan Baker joins Tory Maguire to look at the reaction to these possible changes.
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