For those who are not ‘woke’ the consequences can be immediate and dramatic. Last year, to cite but one example, the Melbourne Comedy Festival's humourless scolds renamed the Barry Humphries Award because Australia's greatest comedian dared to suggest a man 'transitioning' to a women will always be a man. That was enough to erase a lifetime of laughs

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If those responsible for Australia’s schools managed a business or corporation it would be bankrupt and they would be hauled before the ACCC for misleading advertising and harming their customers. So dismal has been the performance, and so steep the decline, there are grounds for a royal commission

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Unlike the socialist urge to perfect human nature and achieve a utopia on this earth, to be a conservative is to accept the imperfectability of human nature and to grasp that utopian dreams, no matter how appealing, always lead to violence and oppression

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It beggars belief that while the national curriculum includes literally hundreds of references to indigenous culture, history and spirituality there are no more than a handful of references to Christianity and its contributions to the way we live

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However much was spent on the latest purported Gonski outline for fixing Australia's schools, know that it was worse than wasted. Not only do the report's edu-babbling authors not recognise what is wrong, their prescription casts each and every existing ill as virtues

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To argue that chaplains be allowed in government schools is bespeaks no hidden attempt to convert students. To be culturally literate and  fully appreciate what underpins Western civilisation, students need to be familiar with the contribution and significance of Christianity

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Given the Turnbull government's dismal record on energy, citizenship, the deficit and so many other areas where policies have alienated the Liberal Party's traditional base, it should come as no surprise that the education minister is doing his bit to insult and afflict parents with kids in parochial schools

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The university's 'Unlearn' advertising campaign leaves no doubt it is Leftist indoctrination, not learning, which the institution has made its stock in trade. As a video promotion promises, students will 'question the world, challenge the established, demolish social norms and build new ones'

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A party languishing in the polls and seemingly unable to address the ruinous and rising cost of electricity, among other pressing matters, pours its energies into a pointless debate steeped in specious claims and statistical sleights of hand. A proper leader would never had let this happen

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The original Gonski review, on which Gonski 2.0 is based, embraced a Fabian view of education that opposes parental choice and, indeed, the very existence of non-government schools. It boggles the mind that a government which professes itself conservative is penalising its aspirational base

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