lexi and poirot,
You are always whinging and complaining about the opposition and Abbott, so do something about it. Stand against him in his electorate. Electors should get off their bum and have a go!

Now you have no idea what I do for my family and i never said I was concerned about my kids, if any. Even if i were that does not fix the overall problem of not giving sufficient teaching time to kids about our history, society and heritage.

I think all parents have the right to expect that schools in Aus teach about matters pertaining to our history and culture. This currently is being neglected and has been for some time. This is obvious from the lack of knowledge kids have on completion of primary school. The state education systems have been caught up in the multicultural band wagon and neglected our own history, society and culture.

You imply it is perfectly Ok to teach our kids about other countries and their cultures, but when it comes to Aussie subjects the parents must provide the resourses. Not good enough, the opposite should apply.

Over the last 40 odd years state and federal governments have provided millions to promote alien cultures and nothing to promote or preserve our own culture.

But thanks for reminding me of this and I will now start to lobby the new government in this state. A good start would be to cut the funding to the state ethnic affairs as one way of saving.

Banjo, fresh from the media this morning. School syllabus will soon include a subject on "cultural acceptance and appreciation". Millions in resource will be spent and 40 individuals apart from the teaching staff will be roaming the school system to ensure we wipe out Australian culture.

sonofgloin,
Saw that article. Gillard announced the new MC council last April and as MC has been losing public support for a long time, it appears that they now intend to indocrinate the kids. Not surprising that this government will support this. Another unpopular move!

The previous government was happy just to let MC die a natural death and nothing much has been heard about it since the last election.

But anyway, there will be a change of government and maybe before too much damage can be done on the MC front.

Best we make sure the Opposition is aware of this move and also the state governments. There will be votes in this for the federal opposition and in QLD. Financial gains for the other states in the demise of MC.

Dear Banjo,

I'm so pleased that you've finally decided to take
action and I sincerely wish you all the best in
your endeavours. Even if you don't succeed - at least
you will know that you did your very best instead
of just complaining about things. And that's
all that any person can do.

Good Luck with it.

Lexi,
I always have done other things, like lobby governments with my views.

Some success has came my way, like changing procedure to get info about Aus to prospective immigrants BEFORE they committed to come here. I also make submissions to various government committees on matters that interest me. At the moment I am lobbying the NSW Minister for Women, in relation to prosecutions for FGM.

But I also find it valuable to air some things on OLO as it may give insight into others thoughts or likely arguments against my views.

Since yesterday, I have written to the NSW Treasurer and the Minister for Education in relation to matters on this thread. I will follow that up, but one has to be persistant.

Having a PC has made it easier.

Dear Banjo,

I had no idea. And, as I said - Good Luck
with what you're doing. I wish you all
the best. At least you are doing something
positive.