In Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a charismatic Edinburgh teacher enchants her chosen students with tales of art, love and - most dangerously - Mussolini’s marching columns. The novel is remembered for Brodie’s charm, but it is really a warning: what happens when authority decides what others must think.

That same temptation exists today, far from Edinburgh’s stone classrooms - inside the schools, agencies and programmes that claim to serve Australia’s remote communities.

Miss Jean Brodie believed she was shaping her girls for greatness; in truth, she was funneling them into her own ideology. Australia has its modern equivalents. No marching columns, no fascist posters - just well-funded agencies, city bureaucrats and consultants convinced they know what remote communities “should” think and how they “should” live.

History has shown where this path leads. Nazi and Soviet classrooms turned children into instruments of the state.

The ideology changes; the temptation to mould rather than mentor does not. Today the battleground is subtler – social-justice curricula, climate alarmism, identity politics - but the risk is the same: adults with power deciding what young minds must think before they have learned how to question. Just think of EKaren. 

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