Julia Gillard, the Commonwealth Minister for Education, and Stuart Macintyre, an academic from the University of Melbourne, argue that the new national history curriculum is balanced and that critics are wrong to label it left-wing.They’re wrong. Anyone reading the two syllabus documents, covering kindergarten to years 10, 11 and 12, can be left in no doubt that schools across Australia will soon be forced to teach a new-age and politically-correct view of history and Australia’s place in the wo…
