As voting ramps up for the 2025 Federal Election, Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton has made clear that he wants to tell teachers how to teach and what to teach and that funding will be withheld unless they comply but is hiding their plans for the Australian Curriculum.
With only days to go and millions of Australians having already voted, the Coalition have failed to outline the changes they will make to the Australian curriculum, if elected to government.
Education has been a priority issue for voters this election and the continued silence from the Coalition on their plans is unacceptable.
With plans for school funding to be tied to a curriculum based on Mr Dutton’s ideology, the Australian people must immediately be told what the Coalition’s plans for the curriculum would look like before they vote, as promised.
The Coalition’s plan to tie school funding to changes in the curriculum highlights the danger to public education of electing Peter Dutton as Prime Minister.
Peter Dutton and the Coalition have attacked teachers throughout this campaign, with Trump-style fake claims of indoctrination and woke agendas.
Australia’s teachers have campaigned for increased public school funding and they deserve to be backed fully by governments with the resources needed in schools to deliver a high quality education for every child.
They also deserve to be respected and trusted to do their jobs without political interference.
Public school teachers have been fighting for the resources they need to give every child the education they deserve.
As election day approaches, voters deserve to know the specific details of the changes that the Coalition has planned for the Australian curriculum.
Australians must be fully informed before casting their votes because the future of our schools, our students, and our democracy is on the line.
Peter Dutton must come clean. Parents, teachers, students, and every Australian voter deserves nothing less.
Correna Haythorpe, Federal President, Australian Education Union
