[T]he Australian government vowed yesterday to reverse the tide of political correctness that had swept [Captain James] Cook, who claimed Australia for the British crown in 1770, and other European lsquo;colonisers’ from the national school curriculum. Julie Bishop, the federal education minister, announced that there will be a radical overhaul in the way history is taught in Australian schools, which will see a return to the narrative form of history, free of political interpretation. (Telegraph, Thursday)
A government mandate to remove political bias from a curriculum?
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