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Friday July 7, 2006
Australia to Rid School History Lessons of Politically Correct Marxist Revisionism
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By Hilary White
CANBERRA, July 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Australian federal
Education Minister Julie Bishop has announced the government’s plan to
end the marxist-inspired history curriculum that has been standard fare
in Australian schools. Bishop said she will press the states and
territories to adopt “traditional Australian history” along the lines
of that adopted in New South Wales by former premier Bob Carr.
The Australian reports that the government is planning on forcing the
issue, saying that refusal would mean the change would be included in
the next funding agreement.
Bishop said, “I want to work with the states on this. I want them to
come along with me in a renaissance in the teaching of Australian
history.”
The change in curriculum would mean a “narrative” approach that would
focus on learning dates and names and events of history, instead of
cultural analysis that many have criticized for a heavy leftist bias.
New South Wales premier Bob Carr told the Australian that he was
willing to help with the re-orientation back to traditional history and
national identity in schools. "I'm happy to talk about it anywhere," Mr
Carr said yesterday. "I support any initiative to have history rescued
and taught as a distinct discipline and to relegate cultural studies."
"Australian history has fallen victim to a crowded curriculum that has
squashed it together with other social and environmental studies," Ms
Bishop said. "I intend to consider ways the federal Government can
encourage state education authorities to make teaching of Australian
history a critical part of the syllabus."
Bishop believes that the re-routing of history into the more subjective
material of courses on “social and environmental studies,” has left
children without sufficient national identity. She said students had a
right to learn the history of their own country as that would make them
more informed citizens.
"I think school systems have become afraid of teaching Australian
history for fear of saying something that isn't politically correct,"
she told ABC Radio.
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