Opposition leader Peter Dutton has backed down on the Coalition’s pledge to change Australia’s school curriculum, after he claimed that students were bring “indoctrinated” by their schools.

During a press conference earlier this morning, Dutton told reporters “we don’t have any proposal to change the curriculum”, despite mentioning the Australian education system various times throughout his election campaign.

Back in March, Dutton told reporters the Coalition plans to “condition funding” to state governments, sharing “we want our kids to be taught the curriculum, not some sort of agenda that’s come out of universities”.

“You have seen other academics that are out as part of protests on the streets, and teachers similarly, and that is been translated into the classroom. That is not something I support,” he said in April.

At a press conference yesterday afternoon, Dutton claimed that the Labor party have concocted a “secret plan” to legislate the Voice to Parliament, following the failed referendum in 2023.

Dutton’s claims come after Labor politician Penny Wong told the Betoota Advocate podcast that the government could re-visit the Voice referendum years down the track.

“We’ll look back on it in 10 years’ time and it’ll be like marriage equality, don’t you reckon?”, she said.

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