Commentary In 2004, the Federal Education Minister, Julie Bishop, proposed the creation of a National Curriculum. Bishop argued that it would benefit all Australians as it would take education out of the hands of  ideologues occupying state bureaucracies and give it to a national board of studies that would be made up of educators from the “sensible centre.” Bishop could not have been more wrong. In the last few weeks, proposed revisions to the National Curriculum by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has shown that the opposite has taken place. Education in this country is now held in the grip of left-leaning ideologues at ACARA, whose views have been firmly embedded into all learning areas of the proposed Australian Curriculum. It is important to note that ACARA has presented the changes to the curriculum as “revisions.” This statement is highly inaccurate, though, with the proposed changes in …