Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Does the minister recall her statement after her meeting with all state and territory education ministers in Brisbane in July this year when she said: ‘I wasn’t pushing a national curriculum. I think that public education should be in the hands of the states.’ Isn’t it the case that the minister has now done a fundamental backflip when she says: ‘We need to take the school curriculum out of the hands of the ideologues in the state and territory education bureaucracies and give it to a national board of studies’? Absurd allegations about Maoists aside, Minister, what do you believe?

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