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.

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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

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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

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Giving indigenous Australians the unique right to effect government policy by allowing direct appeals to parliament and the executive self-evidently creates two classes of Australians, with one enjoying a special status solely on the basis of skin colour and ancestry. In the months to come we'll hear many sophistries purporting to justify dividing the nation by race, but none can hide the ugly truth about this deceptively packaged bid to establish a two-tired citizenry

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Underpinning the school funding debate is the belief socio-economic status is the prime determinant of educational outcomes, and by cutting funding to non-government schools while prioritising needy government ones more disadvantaged students will achieve success. The evidence proves otherwise

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Christmas is seen by many as a time to give and receive gifts, to share hospitality with family and friends and to start that much needed holiday free from worry and stress.  For Christians, though, the birth of Jesus represents an epochal event that radically transformed history and the way we live. Even non-believers should celebrate that

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Victoria's Liberals went missing while Daniel Andrews was abusing the state, its people, their rights and the economy. When they did raise empty heads above the parapet it was to alert voters that they are even more fervent believers in unreliable renewables and steeper power bills than the government itself. Can this principle-free rabble ever find the road back to relevance?

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One need only follow debates on social media sites such as Twitter, where the Left's primitive groupthink and shrieking hysteria prevail, to realise raw emotion has long since replaced civility, rationality and reason. As Roger Scruton puts it, conservatives must 'rediscover what we are and what we stand for, and having rediscovered it, be prepared to fight for it'

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While the current woke madness is often laughable and dismissed as unbelievable, it now infects society to such a dangerous degree that even kindergarten children are not safe indoctrination. Emphasising the good of Australia, why millions have been drawn to make their lives here, is trumped by doctrines of negativity and guilt

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In 1984's dystopian world New­speak cripples the expression of clear thought in plain speech, thus making 'thoughtcrime' impossible as there are no words in which to express it. The Left saw that as a really neat idea and assiduously promote the hobbling of language and meaning, especially in our schools and universities

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