Australia’s new National History Curriculum has been criticised as being political propaganda in disguise.

It certainly pushes Aboriginal, anti-Catholic and/or environmentalist (“sustainability”) perspectives.

No harm in mentioning Aboriginal traditions, of course. They are nearly 3 percent of our population. Perhaps they should occupy about 3 percent of the history course.

But Aboriginal issues receive coverage at great length — their “struggles for recognition and equality” etc.

“Christianity” is mentioned just twice.

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The website video * about this curriculum says there will be “less in it”, but it will be “more explicit”. Poor brainwashed kids.

One of the boffins on the video explains why the curriculum must ignore our Christian and European heritage.

The content must appeal, he says, to a student whose refugee family has just arrived from Sudan, or elsewhere, which may have a non-Christian background.

Perhaps it would interest such students to learn why they are safer here.

What it is about Australia that makes them less likely to be beheaded here, or for their mother/sister to be raped here, or why our next change of government may not be accompanied by shootings in the streets.

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History classes should take a good look at mediaeval Europe.

Health, education and welfare workers then required no wages — they were religious brothers, priests and nuns. 

Unpaid: their life consisted of saying their prayers, tilling the soil to feed themselves — the rest being free for healing, teaching and helping.

Celibate: they didn’t have to divide their time between God’s work and family ties.

The day is overdue for the Church to again create a new God-centred society inside (and in competition with) the present crumbling, anti-God shambles we call contemporary society.

For starters, we would need lots of people becoming priests, brothers and nuns — traditional ones, not trendy ones.

It will happen – but not until young people realise that being in religious orders is an alternative lifestyle, different, unconventional — a full-time sharing the divine life of God. 

That isn’t the message they’re getting at present.

They’ll get it even less from the propaganda onslaught looming when the Gillardians take education over completely.

(* www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Home)