all dat money spend by kevvy and Julia on da edmacation revolutions...really suks. We shoulda ave negociated a bettor outcums and gave us money for new flat screens tvs. eh?

Yes, the Fundamentalist Whatevers can be tiresome. However, Long is demonstrating his concern with the monopoly that the left has on Australia's intellectual institutions. He is highlighting that there is not an equal playing field in the current marketplace of ideas.

Well said, Tosca. BTW, as you would know, Tosca, Ruggero Raimondi sings a great Scarpia.

It's great to see liberalists and traditionalists starting to make their case more forcefully. For decades now we have sat back and watched the Left's long march through our institutions. Like all authoritarians, the Left knows instinctively that controlling what young people think is immensly important. It sometimes takes decades before people overcome the brainwashing they receive in schools and universities. The fact that 'academics' can't differentiate between a literature which reveals something about the human condition and an advertisement which tries to sell washing detergent just betrays the fact that there are no longer any academics in the social sciences. Only second rate cultural marxists and activists.

Interestingly, 20 years of psychological research confirms that children learn best to read through phonics. While I'm not a fan of Miranda Devine, she's right in this instance. Of course, she'd be more persuasive if she'd learn to actually employ fact checkers or, I don't know, do something radical like consult an actual expert in the field.