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Across Australia, teachers are working at the front line of profound social, cultural, and educational change. They are asked not only to teach literacy, numeracy, science, and history, but to respond to rising student anxiety, navigate contested social debates, manage increasing behavioural and emotional complexity, and foster cohesion in classrooms that reflect extraordinary diversity of background and experience.

“But the other component here is that IPA research will show that 54% of people don’t recognise Australia anymore. They don’t recognise the country that they grew up in. And 78% of migrants want less migrants in. They want captured about 100,000 year, which is what it was give or take 20 years ago.”

Teaching has never been more important or more demanding. This Land is a free educational song and classroom resource. It focuses on belonging, shared identity, and gratitude for Australia’s story.

“Well, I’m sort of in principle a supporter of compulsory voting, but the fact that it might lead … You could convince me otherwise when I see things like that. It is the case of there’s this narrative that’s being run that everything is everybody else’s fault, and it’s also really negative and discouraging of young people.”

“And look, we all want to have a proper balanced curriculum, the good, the bad, and the ugly of Australian history. But I’ve got to say, the overwhelming majority of Australia’s history is good. It is a positive. It is a positive that were settled by the British.”

“NDIS has kind of lost its original purpose entirely. It’s got a budget of about $50 billion a year, which is equivalent to, give or take, the defence budget. And it has kind of grown to an unsustainable proportion of dollars, people, industries that are rotting the system.”