Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge has told the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) that it must substantially rewrite its draft national curriculum or it will not be approved. The proposed curriculum that was released in April attracted heavy criticism across all subjects, including the removal of all references to Australia’s democratic and Judeo-Christian heritage in history. “Your draft, however, diminishes Australia’s western, liberal, and democratic values,” Tudge wrote in a letter to ACARA, as reported by The Australian. “The overarching impression from the curriculum is that the main feature of western civilisation is slavery, imperialism, and colonisation.” The Epoch Times has not seen the letter. Tudge criticised the “ideology over evidence” approach that ACARA took to the curriculum, urging the ACARA’s board to seriously consider feedback from education experts who have expressed deep concern over the lowered education standards of the proposal. “Some of these groups, such as Australia’s …