Political education
I AGREE with Kevin Harkins (Letters, July 24).
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There is very little political education in our schools.
I recall that my grade nine science teacher once endeavoured to explain the political Left and Right to us, using the examples of Kevin Rudd and John Howard, as well as George Bush and Al Gore (we had just watched An Inconvenient Truth at the time).
That was all I learnt about political ideology until college where I took 20th Century history and started learning about socialism versus capitalism, etc.
As such, it was quite a while before I figured out my own political beliefs.
Grade 10 students should be given a basic run-down of how the Westminster system works, as well as an explanation of what the political Right and Left stand for, so that they can begin to work out where they might stand on that spectrum.
Cody Handley, Hadspen.
Angry reply helps no one
I AGREE that the trolls feel they can speak their minds but no one else is allowed an opinion.
I came to Australia in 1967, I am now 75.
When my family and I arrived there was a multicultural society as I had never seen before.
They were of many different religions and everyone got on with each other, obeyed the laws, didn’t try to change them to suit us and laughed off any nicknames we were given by others.
Now we have some people, supposedly educated, who decide we can’t say blackboard it must be chalk board, we can’t say baa baa black sheep, we must say baa baa rainbow sheep, we can’t have Easter bonnet parades.
Freedom of speech is one of our assets but some would stop this.
These so called do-gooders are doing more harm than good and dividing the Australian people.
Let us say what we feel and discuss things like grown-ups not children fighting in the playground.