AI tutor for every student. Music, dance, arts as core curriculum from Foundation. Trades first class — not the fallback. HECS frozen with a legislated path to free tertiary education. Teachers paid as the professionals they are.
Children arrive curious and creative. The system trains that out of them. Sitting in rows. Worksheets. Standardised responses. By Year 3 many children have learned school is something you endure — not something you love. The model was designed for the industrial age, and the industrial age is over.
Music, dance, arts, and drama were the first cut when budgets tightened. Treated as extras. This is backwards — music builds mathematical reasoning and memory. Dance builds physical intelligence. Drama builds empathy. These are cognitive foundations. We stripped them out of the curriculum precisely as they became the most valuable human capabilities in an AI economy.
Australian teachers spend 30–40% of working time on administration, compliance reporting, and documentation. That is time not spent with children. The system asks its most important professionals to be paper-processors.
Physics squeezed into senior years for the few. Life sciences as electives. Astronomy barely present. Subjects unchanged for 60 years persist because nobody had the courage to ask if they are still the right ones. AI literacy, data and statistics, ethics, and entrepreneurship are not core curriculum in 2026. They should have been by 2015.
A generation of career advisers steered able students toward degrees. Chronic shortage of electricians, carpenters, and welders that the SBC and every other Australian industry needs. A qualified electrician earns more than most graduates and is more economically essential. The status hierarchy between university and trade is upside down — and it is hurting Australia.
National HECS debt exceeds $74 billion. Average graduate carries $23,000+ before earning their first dollar. Medicine and law: up to $100,000+. Australia once had free tertiary education. We gave it away. MMP brings it back.
First-principles review of the primary curriculum. One question per subject: does this ignite the child or serve the system? Coding woven through from Year 1. Nature through direct experience. Story and argument from Foundation. Genuine literacy and numeracy guaranteed — not just tested.
Every primary student participates in music, dance, visual arts, and drama — core curriculum, every year, from Foundation. Not performance for the gifted. Active participation for everyone. MMP funds specialist arts teachers in every primary school.
Every student begins a second language in their first year of school. Mandarin, Indonesian, Japanese, Hindi, Spanish — the languages of Australia's economic relationships. The neural window for language acquisition is open at age 5. MMP uses it.
Physics foundational from Year 7. Life sciences for every student. Astronomy — an observatory telescope in every school. AI literacy: how models work, how to direct and verify them. Data and statistics. Entrepreneurship. Ethics and philosophy. Financial literacy. The subjects the 21st century actually requires.
Every student gets an individual learning profile updated in real time. The student who loves maths gets extension. The student struggling with reading gets a different approach, as many times as needed. The teacher gets a dashboard showing every student's exact position. Plus robotic teaching aids for students who need physical, embodied support.
Oratory in every school from Year 5 — core skill for every student, not a debating club for the gifted. Standing up, making a case, responding with evidence. Plus: 5 years working in your profession in regional Australia clears HECS entirely. Doctors, teachers, and engineers come to Robertson, the Central Coast, and every regional electorate.
Day 1: HECS indexation frozen. Threshold raised to $60K. Aged care, disability, and early childhood workers — debt cancelled immediately. First term: 50% reduction for STEM, teaching, and nursing. Goal: free tertiary education as a legislated commitment when REL surplus conditions are met. Education is a public good, not a product.
Salaries benchmarked to the top quartile of graduate professions. Master Teacher classification — stay in the classroom and be rewarded for it. Teaching degree redesigned: practical from Year 1, AI-integrated, entry requirements raised. Fast-track pathway for professionals: engineer teaches physics, nurse teaches life sciences, carpenter teaches construction.
Research Sovereignty Fund: Commonwealth grants for defence tech, energy systems, advanced materials, and agricultural science — results stay in Australian hands. Free speech protected by statute: universities that fail to protect free inquiry lose Commonwealth funding. The university that does not argue is a credentialling machine.
MMP ends the status hierarchy between university and trade. Progress as fast as you can learn — AI makes personalised speed possible at scale. Curriculum cross-referenced against industry continuously. 90-day rapid review for any qualification gap. Duration targets cut 30% without loss of competency. The SBC and sovereign manufacturing create direct pathways from VET to guaranteed employment building Australia. Trade is not the fallback. It is the foundation.
The same AI platform that tutors students retrains adults. Any Australian displaced by automation, changing career, or returning after caring responsibilities accesses the national platform free of charge. Personalised pathways. Stackable credentials. Industry-verified competencies. The 45-year-old does not sit through a certificate designed for a 17-year-old. The AI economy disrupts everyone. MMP prepares everyone.
| Current — Designed For The Past | MMP — Designed For The Future |
|---|---|
| Factory model — sit in rows, receive, retain, repeat. | Curiosity model — ignite, explore, create, argue, build. |
| Arts, music, dance cut from budget. Treated as extras. | Music, dance, arts, drama: core curriculum every year, F–10. |
| No second language in most primary schools. | Second language from Foundation — the neural window is open. |
| Teachers spend 30–40% of time on admin and compliance. | AI handles admin. Teacher admin cap: 10% max. Teachers teach. |
| One lesson broadcast to 30 different learners. | Individual AI learning profile for every student, real time. |
| Physics: senior elective. Astronomy: barely present. | Physics from Year 7 all students. Astronomy in every school. |
| AI arriving in classrooms with no curriculum or framework. | AI literacy: how to direct, verify, and work alongside AI. |
| Trades: the fallback. VET: slow, underfunded, misaligned. | Trades first class. VET rebuilt — as fast as you can learn. |
| HECS debt: $74B+ nationally. Average graduate $23,000+ debt. | HECS frozen Day 1. Path to free education — REL funds it. |
| Teaching degree: theory-heavy, low entry, late practicum. | Redesigned: practical from Year 1, AI-integrated, high entry. |
| Professionals cannot fast-track into teaching their field. | 12-month pathway: engineer teaches physics, nurse teaches science. |
| No serious national adult retraining system. | Lifelong learning: same AI platform, free, for every Australian. |
No memos pinned to this policy yet. When an MMP memo on this topic is published, it will appear here with a short summary. The full memo index is at moralmajority.com.au/memos.html.