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English: en:Christopher Pyne Taken with my own camera, cropped from a larger photo. My own work. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Kevin Donnelly, chosen to review the national school curriculum, says many parents believe the sexual practices of gays, lesbians and transgender individuals are ''decidedly unnatural'' and has questioned whether students ought to learn about such relationships at school. In a book he wrote in 2004, Mr Donnelly also seems to suggest that only heterosexual teachers have a right to teach students about sex. The book, called Why Our Schools Are Failing, was commissioned by the Liberal Party-aligned Menzies Research Centre . Malcolm Turnbull, who was chairman of the centre at the time, wrote the foreword. Advertisement Mr Donnelly uses the book to criticise aspects of state curriculum he believes have contributed to declining standards in literacy and numeracy in Australian schools. He lays much of the blame on ''political correctness...

Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre 3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) According to former High Court justice Michael Kirby   Australia 's public education system provides greater equality for gay and lesbian students while non-government religious schools foster outdated prejudices about homosexuality. Christian schools of course teach what the Bible has always taught that homosexuality is a sin against humanity and God. Mr Kirby, who said he spent years ''working furiously to hide'' his sexuality, cited recent research conducted in Queensland public schools that showed lower rates of bullying towards minority students compared with private and religious schools.  ''If you live in a school which has a belief and an instruction that you have a tendency to evil, that is going to percolate down - it is going to be part of the reality,'' he said. Kirby obvious hatred for Christianity supports the unions view of public educa...

Image via Wikipedia Dennis Altman , in a comment piece for yesterday's The Age in response to the ALP conference's decision on gay marriage writes: "The campaign for marriage equality, largely run by younger women and men, not all of them gay, is one of the most successful examples of effective lobbying in Australia over the past few decades." Altman is correct. The questions social conservatives need to ask, though, are why has the cultural-left been so successful in shaping the public debate and why have we reached a stage where many expect that the Australian Parliament, in the near future, will radically redefine the definition of marriage? Image via Wikipedia One of the key strategies used by the left in the culture wars is to take a medium to long-term view and to embark on what the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci describes as the long march through the institutions. Beginning in the late '60s and early '70s, institutions like schools and univer...