Australian politician Mark Latham, the leader of the New South Wales (NSW) state branch of the right-leaning One Nation party, has raised concerns about the increasing presence of “left-wing politics and woke concepts” being taught in schools, including on transgender topics, which he said amounts to “child abuse.” “There’s a lot of left-wing politics and woke concepts that have snuck into our schools, and parents should have a right to say, ‘well, that’s unacceptable, and legally, I’m taking my child out of that class,'” Latham told The Epoch Times. Latham said concerned parents have brought “a whole range of complaints” to him about school teaching materials on progressive topics that contradict their families’ moral and ethical values. Some of the classroom topics raising the ire of parents are gender studies, Marxist movements like Black Lives Matter, and genocidal colonial figures from Australia’s history. Amidst the emergence of “woke” concepts being taught in …