While Islamic cultures draw on the Koran, Hindu cultures look to the Bhagavad Gita. and Chinese pay homage to Confucius, it is Judaeo-Christianity, especially the New Testament, that provides the West’s moral and spiritual compass. Foes of religious belief playing any part in politics can ignore that influence but they cannot deny it

While wokeness has become more influential and all pervasive since the early 1990s, the resounding No vote rejection of the Voice proved the tide is shifting and sanity and common sense might yet prevail. Nowhere is that transformation more urgently needed than in Australia's classrooms

What is needed, in addition to ensuring the nation can defend itself militarily, is a reborn willingness to celebrate what makes Australia such a prosperous, free and open society. That, and an end to the hollow multi-culti pieties about all cultures and religions being equal

As the Voice campaign's failure and Ireland's overwhelming rejection of two woke referendum proposals demonstrate, given the opportunity voters will roundly reject what US columnist Mary Harrington calls 'normophobia' -- the desire to frame 'everything conventional, average, given, assumed, traditional, and normative' as instruments of oppression

One of the arguments advanced by the Australian Law Reform Commission in opposing religious schools' right to control staffing and enrolments is that it’s wrong to discriminate. Did it not occur to the statement's authors that dictating how people worship and observe their faith is discrimination of the most heinous kind?

When Victoria's Jacinta Allen insists cultural diversity has rendered the Lord's Prayer obsolete, what we see is further proof of a society intent on uprooting all its beliefs and traditions, not just those pertaining to faith, that have made it what it is and for the moment remains. 

Given Farah Khairat is a member of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, it’s no surprise she holds a one-sided view of the Gaza war.  What is inexcusable is that like-minded teachers have abrogated the responsibility to serve as their students’ guardians, instead indoctrinating them with the Left's politics and doing so with full union backing, There is no need to wonder why many parents are seeking alternative schools free of bias and cant.

A liberal education is grounded in the established disciplines and, unlike the cultural Left's woke ideology, is impartial and disinterested. The ideal is to enable students to be critically incisive, independent thinkers, culturally literate, morally grounded and spiritually aware. At a time when the education debate centres on funding, teacher quality, pedagogy and falling standards, it’s vital that we see a return to first principles

The way literature is taught defines how destructive and impoverished education has become. No longer expected are humility, patience and a willingness to accept the limits of one's own knowledge. In today's classroom, students are now taught the author is dead, that there are as many interpretations of a text as there are readers and, the greatest travesty, that those same texts have no inherent value or meaning