TAKE BACK OUR SCHOOLS
The job of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is to provide a clear understanding of what students should learn but it has failed Australia miserably.
It must be abandoned and the bureaucrats sacked for preaching the rot they do.
Queensland should take back control of our education system.
All Queenslanders, especially parents with children at school, must get behind our teachers and if, as I predict they are, our teachers are of the quality and soundness of mind, vision etc, as young Jack McGuire of the Teachers’ Professional Association of Queensland, Queensland education is in very good hands. Barry Braes, Mareeba
1307
Scottish king Robert the Bruce heavily defeats an English cavalry force at the battle of Loudoun Hill in Ayrshire.
1857
The Indian Mutiny erupts at Meerut city when soldiers rescue comrades jailed for refusing to use new rifle cartridges, reputedly greased by pig and cow fat.
1865
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, is captured by Union troops near
Irwinville, Georgia.
1900
The iron-hulled sailing cargo ship Sierra Nevada sinks after running aground at Portsea, Victoria; 23 drown out of a crew of 28.
1933
Nazi youth groups gather on a square in Berlin to burn books by Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Einstein and other authors who have been branded “un-German”.
1940
Neville Chamberlain quits as British prime minister on the day Germany invades Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Fellow Tory Winston Churchill takes charge the next day with Labour support.
1954
Decca Records releases Rock Around The Clock, recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets. It tops US charts.
1996
Federal and state governments strike a historic agreement to introduce strict gun laws in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
2000
The flame for the torch of Sydney’s Olympic Games is lit at the ruins of the Temple of Hera at Olympia, Greece.
2020
Queensland’s Deputy Premier Jackie Trad resigns her ministerial responsibilities amid a corruption probe. She is later cleared.