This report highlights a central paradox in the Australian education system: results are going backwards despite two decades of increased government funding. The report asks whether the curriculum itself has become part of the problem. It calls for urgent reform of the Australian Curriculum, centred on two options:

1. option one: replace the existing Australian Curriculum with knowledge-rich syllabuses – concise, subject-focused documents covering Foundation to Year 10, modelled on the Statements of Learning developed under the Howard Government 
2. option two: review and revise the existing curriculum – undertaken now – to eliminate overcrowding, strip out cross-curriculum ideological content and rebuild the framework around essential knowledge by year level. 

Ten recommendations are included with the options.

Key findings of the Australian Curriculum

• Fails to address what best constitutes the purpose of education.
• Fails to recognise the vital importance of enculturation drawing on the on-going debt to Judaeo-Christianity
  and Western civilisation.
• Is superficial and overcrowded making it impossible to implement.
• Is overly politically correct instead of being objective and impartial.
• Is the product of a flawed technocratic and bureaucratic process removed from the realities of the classroom and the needs of teachers, students and broader society.