Bill
Australian Education Legislation Amendment (Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020
before parliament, as at 2025-07-23.
- Sponsor
- Pauline Hanson
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-02-10
- second reading — 2020-02-10
- second reading — 2020-08-31
- other — 2022-07-25
- other — 2022-08-03
- second reading — 2022-11-23
- second reading — 2022-11-23
- other — 2025-07-21
- other — 2025-07-23
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-02-10.
The bill would give parents a way to object to teaching they consider one-sided in schools.
It would make federal school funding to states and territories conditional on laws that ban staff from promoting partisan views and require balanced teaching of opposing viewpoints.
Parents or guardians could apply to a court to enforce these requirements, and schools would need to consult them on whether staff are presenting balanced views.
- Inserts new subsections into the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Act to require balanced presentation of opposing views where they exist.
- Inserts a new section into the Australian Education Act 2013 tying federal funding to state and territory laws that prohibit staff from promoting partisan views and mandate balanced teaching.
- Requires state and territory laws to include court enforcement mechanisms for parents or guardians.
- Requires state and territory laws to mandate school consultation with parents or guardians on staff compliance with balanced presentation requirements.
Parents, guardians, school staff, state and territory governments, and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
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