The cancelling of Christ

IN Australia the culture wars continue with the new national school curriculum steeped in political correctness and cancel culture. Even though there is a supposedly conservative Liberal government headed by the world’s only Pentecostal national leader, Scott Morrison, the Left’s long march continues.

The release of the revised curriculum has once again sparked a debate about the study of Judeo-Christianity and Western civilisation in schools. Critics suggest describing the First Fleet and European settlement as ‘genocide’ and focusing too heavily on Indigenous history, culture and spirituality leads to a politically correct, one-sided curriculum.

In particular, the Australian newspaper’s Rebecca Urban argues the curriculum places too much emphasis on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives to the detriment of Australia’s Christian heritage and the debt owed to Western civilisation.

Urban writes that Australia’s Christian heritage has been erased by the curriculum and that ‘following feedback from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Advisory Group, it now has elevated importance and has been incorporated directly into several subjects’.

Bella d’Abrera from the Institute of Public Affairs is also critical, arguing that the curriculum ‘would completely remove all references to Christianity, to Ancient Greece, and to the freedoms given to us through the values and institutions of Western civilisation. This is basic knowledge that every Australian school child should be taught’.

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