Labor and the left have never forgiven Australians for so resoundingly rejecting the ‘Voice’ referendum. After all, it was only ever the first step in their openly declared process of forever dividing Australians by race, creating an ethnostate and to have a tiny minority gouge the majority for vast fortunes. This was the open secret of the ‘Makarrata’ agenda.
But, as the Long March through the Institutions has shown, the left are nothing if not persistent. Every time they get rejected by democratic process, they simply regather in the shadows and figure out a way to work around the ballot box.
Prior to the 2025 federal election, they were so confident that they shot off their mouths and revealed the secret agenda for all to see.
Aged Care Minister Anika Wells says the indigenous voice to parliament “in the form we took to the referendum” is no longer on the table, after Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong appeared to suggest the voice was inevitable and Labor frontbenchers moved to reframe the comments and dispel coalition claims Labor harboured secret plans to legislate one.
Except, the cat’s well and truly out of the bag. They’re not even convincingly denying it: what, after all, are we to make of not ‘in the form we took to the referendum’? Some other ‘form’, then.
The slip comes as Labor go into panic mode after Wong shot off her big mouth.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has been “verballed” after her appearance on a podcast where she seemed to suggest the indigenous voice to parliament was inevitable and reiterated the voice was not back on Labor’s agenda after the referendum failure in 2023.
But then, Albanese and Labor never once mentioned the Voice or a referendum in the 2022 election campaign. Yet, it was Albanese’s first announcement as PM-elect.
Peter Dutton is right: these people couldn’t lie straight in bed.
Peter Dutton, campaigning in his own seat of Dickson on Thursday, said Ms Wells was “lending her support to Penny Wong’s position”.
“That is that the voice in some form, presumably through legislation, is going to be a part of the Albanese government’s next term in power if they’re successful on Saturday,” the opposition leader said.
As the fracas at the Anzac Day dawn service this year showed, Australians are well and truly ‘Aborigine-d out’. Which is not, as the activists would screech, ‘racism’. Opinion poll after poll shows that other Australians overwhelmingly wish only the best for our fellow Aboriginal Australians. What they don’t want is to be browbeaten and finger-wagged endlessly and made to genuflect to a Stone Age culture.
As it happens, many Aboriginal Australians feel much the same way.
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has criticised the mandatory teaching of indigenous issues in every school subject and called for a better national curriculum.
Mr Pearson said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture should be explicitly taught at school – just not in every subject area.
While it can be questioned how much Aboriginal history should dominate history lessons – at the moment, to the almost total exclusion of every other aspect of Australian history – or how much Aboriginal culture should be explicitly taught at the exclusion of Australia’s dominant and foundational Western, Judeo-Christian culture, Pearson is correct that these should be separate, standalone subjects. Not shoe-horned, often ridiculously, into every single aspect of the curriculum.
“The approach that has been adopted is to infuse everything you do with those so-called cross-curriculum priorities,’’ the respected leader told The Australian.
“When you’re trying to work out how you include indigenous content in the teaching of maths, for example, it just confuses the teachers.
“That, in my mind, is just one of the shortcomings of the national curriculum’’ […]
The mandatory teaching of the priorities across every subject has resulted in convoluted lesson plans, including maths lessons incorporating Aboriginal dance and basket-weaving.
Again, Pearson is right: the current curriculum and pedagogical approach are a dog’s breakfast of left-wing gibberish and nonsensical ‘education theory’. Pearson is, correctly, an advocate of what worked for centuries.
Mr Pearson is the founder and co-chair of Good to Great Schools Australia, an educational charity that develops free lesson plans used in more than 3000 schools, based on the successful teaching method known as explicit, or direct, instruction […]
Mr Pearson said the charity was focusing on the “holy grail’’ of direct instruction in mathematics.
“Maths instruction is a real challenge for Australian schools,’’ he said […]
“Some very, very prestigious private schools use direct instruction programs, so it was frustrating for me to see that so many successful schools were open to it and the disadvantaged public schools were not.’’
It’s also used by the Asian schools, which are streaking ahead in literacy and numeracy, while most Western students are falling further and further behind. Teacher at the front and students sitting at desks, listening to clear and explicit instructions.
That sort of hierarchical approach, though, is anathema to the left-wing theorists who dominate education bureaucracy.
