Qld: Government bans humanist school courses
01 Jan 2009 2:30 AM
Queensland cabinet documents released today under the 30-year rule show a BJELKE-PETERSEN government at its peak in 1978 .. willing to take on Canberra and impose its conservative philosophy on Queensland.
Moderate social studies programs were thrown out of Queensland schools .. about two thousand were arrested in defiance of a ban on street marches .. cabinet ruled against recognition of World Environment Day .. and the autocratic premier ignored the advice of a government minister and department to site the Tarong power station in his own electorate.
And in an act of political interference in the school curriculum Sir JOH chased the moderate syllabuses .. Man: A Course of Study and Social Education Materials Project from the state's classrooms .. claiming they were social engineering.
MACOS was developed in the US and aimed at Year 6 children and had widespread support from parents and teachers and was successful elsewhere in Australia.
