The national curriculum doesn’t just threaten our children. It’s a threat to the future of our nation.

There is a lot of value in its own right in studying Aboriginal culture. This is a window back into human prehistory. Taught properly, it should provide an insight into how far humanity has come, but also how much modern societies still share with stone age ones. It should also provide an insight into the conflict between European settlers and indigenous that continues to this day. As well as lessons as to what happens if you can't secure your own borders.

But that could be taught in a couple of units spread over all the years of schooling. Afterall, World Wars I and II also provide us valuable insights, particularly useful at a time of rising Sino militarism, but it is only taught over a few units, and then only to those students studying history.

And that isn't what is being taught anyway. The materials don't portray the totality of aboriginal life but provide a bowdlerised, sentimental, Rousseauvian version where later settlers are implicitly the villains. This is ideology, not history, or anthropology.

There could also be a lot of value in its own right to studying aspects of climate science. Certainly chemistry and physics classes could profitably include reference to radiation, wavelengths, optical thickness, absorption bands, phase change of water, to name just a few. But that is not how climate science is taught. Instead of being a science, it is taught as a set of beliefs. And how could it be anything else if you are going to force, say, English teachers (most of whom are unlikely to have even basic physics) to incorporate it into their lessons?

So we get the incoherent Climate Strikes where children protest, often under direction from their teachers, that we need to do more about climate change, without any idea of how this might be achieved. They presumably never make the link that without technological innovation, which takes time, the only way to go carbon neutral immediately would be to live an aboriginal lifestyle, which would be quite literally murderous. The carrying capacity of Australia under modern Western management is currently better than 25 million, but under Aboriginal management it was never more than one million, and possibly much less. Only the top 4% would survive, if that.

Well, that might be partly an exaggeration. We might manage a few million more without significant CO2 emissions via nineteenth century agricultural techniques, although it would be difficult to adjust to them, because you wouldn't be able to dial up explanatory YouTube videos for handy how-to advice.

But the death toll in either scenario would be catastrophic.

We also wouldn't control our own country for very long. Australia's security depends on us being a rich country with a standard of living sufficient to produce primary produce that the rest of the world needs. They might be prepared to let us starve ourselves to death, but they wouldn't let us keep our resources in the ground or the field so they could starve to death too, they'd come and harvest them for us.

But if you take Western history out of the curriculum and replace it with ATSI history and culture, and real science and replace it with climate "science", kids aren't going to be able to work this out for themselves. One day the kids will be running the country, and without a properly ideological education, they'll be running it into the ground, quite literally.