National curriculum

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08 April 2010In the Monthly Comment, Waleed Aly examines the Rudd government's proposed national curriculum and explores the way it expresses the current ideology of the Labor party. Recognising that discussions over education inevitably feed into wider cultural debates, Aly is concerned that this policy marks a retreat by Rudd - a nod to the staid "cult of common sense" of his conservative predecessors.  

"Even in this most ideologically charged terrain [the education debate], Rudd finds it difficult to define himself sharply. Perhaps Rudd remains haunted by Howard's ghost when it comes to anything resembling the politics of culture, where, at key points, he relinquishes his own voice and begins to sound like the man he defeated in 2007." 


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