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The queer life coming to a school near you

The Queensland Family Planning service has gone walkabout. Its latest proposal encourages teachers to talk about "homosexual role models" during class and to hang posters depicting the Sydney Mardi Gras on its walls. The Family Planning service are recommending this to combat "homophobia".

The proposal includes the incorporation of references to homosexuals in history into the curriculum. Those suggested include Oscar Wilde, Milchelangelo and Virgina Woolfe to be incorporated with "motivational" strategies including the use of queer posters.

Under the proposal teachers would be taught to watch for "homophobic" behaviour including comments, name calling, ridicule and violence.

Family Planning Queensland's Family Planning School Education co-ordinator, Judy Rose, when trying to defend the indefensible said, "Gay and lesbian school kids have a right to enjoy being at school and a right to know there have been positive role models throughout history.

"Maybe you are studying Oscar Wilde and you say he was gay, it is an important fact that had an impact on his writings.

"What we are looking at first of all is addressing homophobia and further down the track we will get into the area of celebrating diversity."

The workshops styled "Out with Homophobia" will be launched next month as a voluntary programme for school teachers.

"There is no point in stirring things up and creating anxiety in the community by being provocative," Rose said. "We have to be really careful about the way it is handled, they are being harassed now."

A spokesman for the Family Council of Queensland Ben de Jong said that schools were not there to promote a homosexual lifestyle, "I don't think that should come from the teacher. Obviously they don't question every teacher to find out what their lifestyle is."

A spokeswoman for Education Minister Dean Wells said, "Schools should be about fostering tolerance via the anti-Discrimination Act and anti-bullying programmes."

Yeah and give good old fashioned family values a boot in the backside... long live homophobia.

@notd Update

I will be at Inverell in northern New South Wales this weekend.

I have been invited to give the after dinner speech at the Inverell Forum on Saturday night. The Inverell Forum is sponsored by The Strategy. @notd will not be updated between Friday and Sunday. The Monday edition will carry full details of this forum.

Other speakers include Dorothy Pratt MLA , Len Clampett (an @notd contributor) and Tony Pitt.

"Racist" Elliott shows Liberal parties true colours

John Elliott, formerly president of the Liberal party, yesterday branded Aborigines a "forgotten race" and land rights "a do-gooder problem".

In an extraordinary performance at an Institute of Chartered Accountants lunch in Melbourne the former Elders chief labelled the Prime Minister "a shade boring" and Australians "a very stupid race of people".

He said a Liberal government was needed because there was less chance of the Liberal Party being "sidetracked into absolutely unimportant issues: the republic, Aborigines, drugs," and praised Mr Howard for having "had his eye on the job" of economic management.

"We've got to keep Johnny Howard - and I think he's good enough - to stay worrying about economic growth and not worry about saying sorry to a forgotten race."

Mr Elliott, whose topic was "The Liberals in power: the key to growth in Australia", said issues like the republic, Aborigines and drugs were "not unimportant in their own right ... but they aren't what create the wealth, health, of the nation. They aren't making the pie bigger".

The Opposition Leader, Mr Beazley, said last night: "Given that Mr Elliott is what passes for an icon in the Liberal Party, Mr Howard should immediately dissociate himself from Mr Elliott's remarks - and not only the comment about the Prime Minister being boring".

But a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said last night that "like any private citizen John Elliott has a right to express his personal views".

In scathing assessment of the electorate, Mr Elliott said Australians only knew how to vote from the hip pocket. They were "a very stupid race of people, very insular"; also, there was the real risk "that in fact we're getting too politically correct".

Asked about the impact of the Mabo decision and land rights on the mining industry, Mr Elliott said he didn't think Mr Howard believed Aboriginal land rights could be fixed.

"In fact, he's very worried about it. In the end they've got to try to ignore it and downplay it and let it go away. But will it go away?

"Australians are finally getting sick of it. You know, it's mainly the people in Melbourne and Sydney, like yourselves, that have caused the trouble because you've got this wonderful idea that we've got to give all the money to them.

"Whereas the poor old farmer out there, he's had them working for him for years and knows they wander off and never come to work and expect to get twice the pay. So it has been a do-gooder problem. I think you ought to look after the Aborigines but I think it's got totally out of hand. I think the only way is to try and downplay it.

"The problem today [is] there is now an industry built around it."

He had always said "the Liberal Party always reaches its zenith when we have a Victorian prime minister, and clearly the next one, Mr Costello or Mr Reith, will be from Victoria".

Mr Elliott was Federal Liberal president from 1987 to 1990. He and Mr Howard had a tense relationship.

The Federal Liberal director, Mr Lynton Crosby, contacted Mr Elliott after receiving media queries about the speech.

"He thought it was a closed forum. They hadn't told him there would be any media," Mr Crosby said last night.

"He thought he was doing it behind closed doors."

A melting pot -- without much melting

Here is an extract from that article:

"The notion is that those (immigrants) get assimilated into the American mainstream," says William Clark, a Los Angeles geographer. But "if you've got 4 (million) to 5 million Hispanics in L.A. County, assimilation to what? ... What's the American mainstream?"

In some places, it's hard to tell. Consider: A record 26 million immigrants already live in the U.S. and some 800,000 to 900,000 newcomers arrive legally each year (another 400,000 come illegally). That's nearly 10 percent of the population - not quite as high as the early 1900s but double the percentage of 1970.

Typically, the newcomers are younger, poorer, and less well-educated than the native-born population (though a liberal sprinkling are more highly educated). They're also much more likely to have children.

The influx of immigrants plus the children they bear has accounted for nearly 60 percent of the nation's population growth since 1990. That's a sharp break from the early part of the century when fertility rates among native-born Americans were also high.

Phyllis Schlafly Report

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The phrase "New World Order" was not invented by President George Bush, but it was popularized by him in 1990 in order to resuscitate the then-moribund United Nations and make it a sponsor of his Gulf War. Like Saddam Hussein, the New World Order concept survived the Gulf War intact.

"New World Order" has become a handy label to describe the various policies that challenge American sovereignty in the economic, political, diplomatic, and even educational venues. It's the underlying ideology behind trade policies that export American jobs and encourage illegal political contributions from foreigners. It's even the philosophy behind the trendy fads in public schools, such as multiculturalism, school-to-work, and global education.

Story: How Microsoft Lost the Cold War. How Novell Won. And Why You Should Care

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Microsoft waged a Cold War for the past six years, using propaganda and promises to fend off a competitor. It looks like it's going to lose.

The war of words is over directories, often described as the "white pages" of the Internet. Theoretically, a directory lets you find anything attached to the network -- users, servers, printers, disks. More importantly, a true directory lets you manage all those resources. Manage thousands of users from a single, centralized console. Even when they share PCs. Even when they roam from PC to PC.

from the global office:

Another perfect day in paradise.

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