Dear Reader,
Under the Victorian government Treaty, Gellung Warl is to become a permanent, statutory body with its own rule-making powers, representation structure, and the ability to influence laws and government decisions – effectively creating a parallel bureaucracy based on race.
Backed by a budget projected to exceed $70 million a year, Gellung Warl comes with new agencies, boards, and oversight arms – none of which the public voted for. It can issue rules, appoint officials, and direct “truth-telling” programs in schools and public institutions, yet its decisions aren’t subject to normal democratic scrutiny or electoral accountability. It enshrines permanent, race-based representation with evolving powers to negotiate more authority over time locking division into Victoria’s system of government … and the education system.
The plan will see the Victorian curriculum rewritten to “tell the full story” of Indigenous history, with compulsory Indigenous perspectives – genocide being the official position – embedded across every subject from Prep to Year 12.
Teachers will be required to complete new “cultural competency” training, and school libraries will be forced to “decolonise” their collections, removing books or materials deemed outdated or “offensive”.
The Victorian Government is politicising classrooms and replacing learning with guilt, grievance and indoctrination. Instead of fostering unity through shared Australian values, this is rewriting and distorting history to fit a narrow political narrative and will divide students by race.
Students should be learning from a balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum that celebrates what unites us as Australians: our democracy, equality before the law, and shared commitment to fairness – all things that came with colonisation. Turning classrooms into vehicles for activism undermines those very values and does nothing to address our appalling academic standards.
Victoria’s children desperately need reading, writing, and arithmetic –not race baiting re-education.
Gender-Neutral Madness
South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania policy documents now require teachers to abandon the ordinary, natural terms of boys and girls and use “non-gendered” language as part of a broader push for “inclusive” schooling.
Teachers are asked to use alternative terms such as gang, funsters, fam or even comrades.
The shift in language might look trivial but it reveals something far deeper about the state of our schools. This policy push reduces students to props in an ideological project that denies basic biological reality.
Classrooms are being hijacked by radical social theories that have nothing to do with helping children learn. Policies across the country mean teachers are told to act not as educators but as agents of cultural re-engineering and social experimentation. When a teacher stands before a classroom of teenagers and calls them “cherubs” or “comrades”, it both dehumanises them and insults their intelligence. And it sends a message that reality must bend to ideology.
Our education system does not have the luxury of indulging in fringe theories. NAPLAN 2024 showed nearly one in three students failed to meet minimum benchmarks in literacy and numeracy. At Year 9, 40 per cent of students were below expected writing standards.
The gap between what parents want – an education focused on reading, writing, and arithmetic – and what the system is delivering, could not be wider.
The path forward is obvious. We must restore honesty and excellence to our classrooms. That begins by putting aside ideological fads and refocusing schools on their fundamental mission: teaching children to read, write, and calculate to the highest possible standard.
Schools Program New Unit: Charles Rasp
Charles Rasp (1846–1907) was a German-born prospector whose discovery changed Australia’s mining history. Originally trained as a chemist, he migrated to South Australia in 1880 and worked as a boundary rider on a remote sheep station in far western New South Wales. While riding the rugged terrain in 1883, Rasp noticed an unusual rocky outcrop that shimmered with what he thought might be tin or silver. He pegged a claim, and soon after, the site proved to contain one of the richest deposits of silver, lead, and zinc ever found. This discovery became the foundation of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company—better known today as BHP, one of Australia’s most successful and globally influential mining companies. Rasp’s keen eye and persistence transformed a dusty outback town into an industrial powerhouse and helped shape Australia’s modern economy.
Charles Rasp forms part of our ‘Pioneers of Australia’ series and can be downloaded here.
IPA Schools Program Out and About
Colleen Harkin appeared on The Rita Panahi Show – Sky News Australia to discuss the IPA’s research on criminal justice.
Colleen Harkin appeared on ABC Melbourne Mornings with Rafael Epstein to discuss the IPA’s research on divisiveness in Australian politics.
Colleen Harkin appeared on The Rita Panahi Show – Sky News Australia to discuss the IPA’s research on criminal justice.
Colleen Harkin appeared on ABC Melbourne Mornings with Justin Smith to discuss the IPA’s research on net zero.
Colleen Harkin appeared on FiveAA Mornings to discuss the IPA’s research into the National Curriculum.
Colleen Harkin appeared on The Rita Panahi Show – Sky News Australia to discuss the IPA’s research into the level of wokeness in Australia.
Colleen Harkin appeared on ABC Melbourne Mornings with Rafael Epstein to discuss the IPA’s research on immigration.
Colleen Harkin appeared on The Rita Panahi Show – Sky News Australia to discuss the IPA’s research on criminal justice.
Quote of the month:
Real values are universal: honesty, fairness, courage, equality before the law, compassion. They unite people and form the moral foundation of a free society.
Ideological virtue, on the other hand, is selective: it demands allegiance to a political worldview, divides people into oppressors and victims, and redefines morality through power and grievance.
So while the Treaty curriculum is marketed as values-based, it actually replaces timeless moral values with ideological dogma. It teaches children what to think, not how to think.
This brings to mind the book The Abolition of Man (1943) by C.S. Lewis which says:
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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