Newly Proposed Curriculum Faces Harsh Criticism For Removing the History of the Western World and Democracy
The newly proposed changes to the Australian curriculum, which removes references to the nation’s democratic and Christian heritage, have been strongly criticised by experts and educators, with some calling the proposed changes “radical left-wing.”
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) revealed its proposal yesterday to increase the amount of content on culture, history, and perspectives of indigenous Australians throughout the Australian curriculum.
Bella d’Abrera, director of the Institute of Public Affairs’ (IPA) Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, called for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to reject the “radical” new curriculum.
obama wages war on Yemen.
The US bombed Yemen three times during the week, claiming that it was a response to missiles fired at the USS Mason by the armed Houthi political opposition faction in Yemen. The Pentagon, however, has now admitted that it s possible no missiles were launched at the US naval warship.
According to a Reuters report on Monday, the Pentagon said it is not sure whether the USS Mason was targeted by missiles launched in Yemen on Saturday.
Moscow Expresses Grave Concern Over Violations of Humanitarian Law, Civilian Deaths in Yemen We are still assessing the situation. There are still some aspects to this that we are trying to clarify for ourselves given the threat the potential threat to our people, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told journalists.
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While my contrarian macro forecasts have been widely documented, what is not as well understood is the many complex inputs into these projections.
A critical influence on our housing market predictions has been the Reserve Bank of Australiaâs innovative research on the subject, exemplified by the pioneering 2019 housing model developed by Peter Tulip and Trent Saunders.
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Tulip and Saunders controversially concluded that reductions in interest rates, rather than inelastic supply and/or population growth, explained most of the rise in house prices over the last big boom between 2013 and 2017.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to offer farmers limited price support even as he holds the line on loan waivers described as pragmatic and forward-looking.
Millions of Indian farmers will benefit from the country s new farm laws, an Australian scholar, who has been encouraging Delhi to stay the course of reform, has said.
Salvatore Babones, an adjunct scholar at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, says in an article published in the
Foreign Policy magazine that India s rich farmers are frustrating the reforms that are designed to help the poor.
Mr Babones described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to offer farmers limited price support even as he holds the line on loan waivers as pragmatic and forward-looking.