Tag: Kevin Donnelly

‘You’re in the Minority’: Conservative Students Struggle to Find a Voice on University Campus

As Barclay McGain walked into the campus of the University of Queensland (UQ), the lack of diversity in political clubs caught his attention. There’s the Socialist Alternative, three different climate change clubs, the UQ Greens, the Labor left, and the Labor right. Meanwhile, on the right, there’s the UQ Liberal National Society, which McGain argued…


Home Schooling on the Rise in Australia, Parents Concerned About Content Schools Teach Children

Homeschooling is rising in Australia after parents became increasingly aware of the content schools were teaching children during COVID-19 lockdowns. Queensland’s Department of Education revealed in October that home school registrations rose 69 percent, from 5,008 to 8,461, between 2021 and 2022 (pdf). “Home education has been growing in Australia steadily for a number of…