{"id":5085,"date":"2020-02-11T07:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:32:46","slug":"we-dont-need-no-hanson-education-bill-faruqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/we-dont-need-no-hanson-education-bill-faruqi\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Need No Hanson Education Bill: Faruqi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to Senator Pauline Hanson\u2019s announcement of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/story\/6621913\/teachers-biased-on-history-climate-change-sex-hanson\/\">\u201cThe Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children Bill\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which, absurdly, would rewrite the curriculum to require teaching of climate denialism and dangerous conservative ideas of gender and sexuality.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cSenator Hanson\u2019s attempt to gag teachers and stuff the curriculum full of right-wing conspiracy theories would be laughable if it weren\u2019t so terrifying.<br \/>\n\u201cThe curriculum should be based on evidence and expertise not Pauline Hanson\u2019s latest bigoted thought bubble.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is no place for this kind of censorship of teachers in our democracy and our schools.<br \/>\n\u201cThis bill belongs nowhere but in the bin. Hanson\u2019s spurious claims that human-caused climate change is \u2018unsubstantiated\u2019 and schools \u2018teach gender fluidity and realignment to infants\u2019 can go with it.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s vital every child learns the realities of the climate crisis, the truth of Australia\u2019s settler-colonial past and how to have respectful relationships in the context of a comprehensive sex education.<br \/>\n\u201cTeachers, working with educational experts, do a great job supporting students, often working without the resources they need. They certainly don\u2019t need One Nation\u2019s meddling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to Senator Pauline Hanson\u2019s announcement of\u00a0\u201cThe Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children Bill\u201d\u00a0which, absurdly, would rewrite the curriculum to require teaching of climate denialism and dangerous conservative ideas of gender and sexuality. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cSenator Hanson\u2019s attempt to gag teachers and stuff the curriculum full of right-wing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/we-dont-need-no-hanson-education-bill-faruqi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Don\u2019t Need No Hanson Education Bill: Faruqi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}