Peter Dutton said that despite earlier claims that children were “inculcated” and committed to reforming curriculum, the coalition did not propose recommendations to reform schools to teach in schools.
Liberals have previously supported concerns about the “awakening agenda” in schools and promised to “recover” a course aimed at “critical thinking, responsible citizenship and common sense” in their budget reply speech.
Dutton also surfaced, placing “conditions” on funding to ensure that children are not “guided by some kind of agenda that emerges from college.”
During the Channel 7 election debate held on Channel 7 five days ago, the opposition leader also said: “We need to stop teaching some courses that say our children should be ashamed of being Australian.”
But, with only two days from Election Day, Dutton downplayed any changes in the league at a press conference in Brisbane.
When asked what might have changed in the league in the course, he said: “We don’t have any advice.”
Education Secretary Jason Clare said Thursday that the Morrison administration has already conducted current courses in the current national courses and will be reviewed in the next parliament.
"Peter Dutton would make you think Adam Bandt wrote the course. Actually, the Liberals wrote the course."
“What happens during normal events is that the course is reviewed and the course, the national course will be reviewed in the next Parliament.”
In the first week of the campaign, Dutton was asked at a Sky News forum for Dixon voters to ask about the coalition's actions that would crack down on "wake up agenda" in education.
Dutton did not use the term “wake” like the questioner did, but replied that the federal government could “influence” the state government on the teaching of schools.
"We do provide funds for the state and we can adjust that money," Dutton said.
“We should say to the United States…we want our children to be taught courses…not being directed to some sort of agenda from the university,” he said.
"It's something we need to hear more debate from parents. I think the entire community has a silent majority on this issue."
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When asked about the idea of funding adjustments based on the course, Dutton did not reconstitute the idea.
“What we are going to do is to reflect with parents what they want to see in the education system, which is a great education for their children,” he said.
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Shadow Education Secretary Sarah Henderson held a banner on ABC in early April, and there will be more to say in the course during the campaign.
She has repeatedly refused Guardian Australia's request for interviews for further information, but she provided a statement in stark contrast to Dutton's powerful language, that "classrooms should be for education rather than indoctrination."
Henderson said the league "has strongly focused on the basics of returning to school", pointing out that Naplan's decline in proficiency in literacy, mathematics and science.
Claire wrote to school groups earlier this month claiming that the coalition government could “use funds as leverage to identify students who teach non-government schools.”
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