Both major political blocs in Australia are calling for changes to the national school curriculum, though they differ sharply on what those changes should be. The conservative Coalition wants greater emphasis on Western values and civic traditions, and proposes moving Indigenous history and sustainability out of cross-curriculum threads and into standalone subjects, while the Labor government's Education Minister Jason Clare is pushing for further reform of the primary curriculum to improve maths outcomes. Experts caution that rewriting curriculum documents — last nationally revised in 2022 — rarely translates directly into changed classroom practice, as implementation varies across states and territories, and teachers routinely adapt materials to local needs; meaningful improvement, they argue, also depends on teacher support, resourcing and workload conditions that political announcements rarely address.