# Capture — not in the curriculum

- **Claim filed:** “Critical race theory is an academic framework that is not part of the Australian curriculum.”
- **Who:** Kathomi Gatwiri and Leticia Anderson
- **URL:** https://theconversation.com/the-senate-has-voted-to-reject-critical-race-theory-from-the-national-curriculum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-163102
- **Date on page:** 2021-06-22
- **Publisher:** The Conversation
- **Captured:** 2026-08-16
- **Method:** saved HTML (`conversation-2021-06-22.html`, `ipa-vision.html`, `nsw-understanding.html`)

## Verbatim (The Conversation, 22 June 2021)

> Critical race theory is an academic framework that is not part of the Australian curriculum. Learning how, for example, First Nations Australians experienced colonisation is expanding knowledge and understanding about our history. It is not necessarily a direct influence of critical race theory. Every time race is mentioned in an educational context, it does not mean CRT is being applied.

Same article, the definition:

> Within critical race theory, racism is viewed as more than just individual prejudices. Instead, it is considered to include a wide range of social practices deeply embedded in policies, laws and institutions.

## The other meter — official school materials

`nsw-understanding.html` — NSW Department of Education

> racism is often reinforced and maintained through power structures. This results in institutional, systemic or structural racism

Racism. No Way! (NSW DoE, “on behalf of all Australian schools”) — institutional racism and white privilege pages, captured with the white-privilege card.

ACARA v9 Year 4 AC9HS4K04 — “viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion.” Official scope-and-sequence file is with that card.

`ipa-vision.html` — IPA Schools Program

> From Foundation to Year 10, the Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum carries undertones of Critical Race Theory

The IPA is the locator, not the slogan being filed.

Senate, 21 June 2021, Hanson motion: “That the Senate calls on the Federal Government to reject critical race theory from the national curriculum.”
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/c6de025e-124c-480e-a0c4-2ff604f37598/&sid=0107

## What this file does not do

It does not file “Hanson invented a panic” or “the IPA proved the schools are finished.” It files “not part of the Australian curriculum” against official pages that teach the same structural-racism nouns CRT names.