Alice Springs Deputy Mayor Cr Jacinta Price said schools were no longer about education but, instead, were about “ongoing indoctrination”.

NSW Prisons & Counter Terrorism Minister Anthony Roberts described the proposal as “neo-Marxist rubbish” while his colleague, Education Minister Sarah Mitchell, said NSW would set its own curriculum.

The proposed changes – released last week by the Kevin Rudd-inspired Australian Curriculum Assessment & Reporting Authority – incorporates all the trendy catch-cries from fringe activist groups.

RAPE CULTURE

Western cultural studies are again set to take a back seat to “inter-culture inquiry”. Addressing so-called “rape culture” is on the agenda and will see lessons on “sexual consent”.

Following the lead of Australian and US universities, the school curriculum authority is recommending increased focus on sustainability, race-based history and “direct action” – which is code for student activism.

Ancient history lessons will now focus on 60,000 years of Australia’s past (called “Deep Time History”) – and largely ignore world history. Historical dates will no longer be required learning in Year 7.

These proposed changes amount to an incremental continuation by public educators to race shame white culture and to demonise boys and men.

The increased incidence of white school boys being singled out and forced to offer group apologies because of their skin colour, gender or faith is a direct result.

Just last month, Christian white male students at Victoria’s Parkdale Secondary College were publicly singled out for being “privileged and oppressors”.

APOLOGISE

In a separate incident in March, another Victorian high school allegedly forced all its male students to stand in assembly and to apologise “on behalf of their sex” to their seated female classmates.

“I have major concerns about what’s going on here,” Mr Mundine said. “The curriculum is indoctrination, and it’s the dumbing down of our education system.

“We’re heading into really dangerous territory when you start down the path of critical race theory,” he said.

“It’s reasonable to teach that, from the perspective of indigenous people, European settlement amounted to colonisation – but they’ve gotten the balance wrong.”

Minister Roberts said the draft curriculum should be dumped.

“History is history. To continue pushing this is the standard neo-Marxist rubbish that we see float up to the surface on a regular basis,” he said.

“It’s something that belongs in the old Soviet Union and not in a strong Western democracy such as Australia.”

Cr Price, who is also Indigenous Research Director at the Centre for Independent Studies, said there was a “total rewriting of history going on which romanticised Aboriginal culture” at the expense of Australia’s true heritage.