Page 2565 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 2 July 2008
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This is what this education department is recommending to children in primary school as young as four and five. In another part of the website, the protagonist of the website consults her activist tactical field guide, which states:
REMEMBER: Most meat eaters are total hypocrites. Try confronting them with a live version of their favourite meat.
There are several other messages on the website which reek of activist indoctrination. When children answer a question on whether they prefer to drink their soft drinks from glass bottles, plastic bottles or aluminium cans, the hero of the website shouts out:
Forget the packaging, it’s all cultural imperialism!
This reads like something you would see in the ‘70s when the Maoists thought they had half a chance.
Dr Foskey: Gee, the seventies were good.
MR MULCAHY: Dr Foskey says that was a good era.
Dr Foskey: You were there.
MR MULCAHY: I never supported this sort of nonsense. If Dr Foskey supports this sort of nonsense, I would be very surprised. The website also has the following messages for children:
Organise and socialise comrades. Together we can save the world!
Clean transport—Cheap, clean and healthy—break free of the tyranny of the car!
Consumerism—You are not your possessions.
Nuclear waste—Too many half lives add up to no life at all.
There are several other instances on the website that are blatantly activist in their message to children. These are too numerous to mention, as they saturate the entire website. Throughout the website, the hero of the stories is the epitome of political correctness, a hippie environmental activist whose virtue is presented as unassailable. Contrarily, the website presents anyone failing to live up to this ideal as an insidious enemy of nature.
Meat eaters are presented as brainless tattooed skinheads; loggers are presented as angry psychopaths; people who advocate nuclear power are presented as evil villains; and the core villain of the website is an attractive blonde girl who spends too much time shopping. Her name is X-on.
A review of the ACT sustainable schools initiative conducted by my office in late May alerted me to this website, which is now the subject of a review by the ABC, who host the site. And I acknowledge that they, with funding from Film Victoria,
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