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House Standing Committee on Education

10 February 2026

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Contents updated on 22 Oct 2026

The committee opens its inquiry into building Asia capability through education, sets procedural context, and hears ACARA outline its ministerial mandate, including Asian languages as a historically defined national priority.

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Opening of hearing and ACARA mandate

15:34

Opening of hearing and member introductions

15:34

ACARA witnesses introduced — mandate and Asian languages as ‘national priority’

16:40

National priority questioned — Asian languages vs departmental ‘agnostic’ stance

17:45

From curriculum to classroom — inconsistency, federation and regulatory limits

23:47

Language offerings, learning goals and AI tools

29:49

School language offerings — workforce, parental demand and system influence

29:49

Purpose of language learning — discipline, intercultural skills and AI disruption

34:55

AI and pedagogy — integrating new tools into curriculum

41:54

Asia cross‑curriculum priority and curriculum design

46:49

Asia cross-curriculum priority — implementation in HASS, history, geography and English

46:49

Curriculum content vs elaborations — national prescription and local adaptation

54:21

Teacher practice, assessment signals and student incentives

57:17

Teacher perspective — balancing curriculum, assessment, pedagogy and student choice

57:17

National assessment priorities — NAPLAN focus and absence of language testing

01:01:55

Incentivising language uptake — excursions, equity and community partnerships

01:06:46

Closing remarks and questions on notice

01:14:08

Conclusion and questions on notice

01:14:08

House Standing Committee on Education

10 February 2026

House Standing Committee on Education Wed, 11 Feb 2026 Australian Parliament

15:34 - 16:07

Speaker 3

The public hearing of the standing committee on education's inquiry into building Asia capability in Australia through the education system and beyond. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land in which we meet today and pay respects to elders past and present of indigenous peoples across Australia. This hearing will be audio broadcast, and the transcript of proceedings will be published on the parliament's website. Before we begin with our witnesses, I'd just invite, the full deck of members that we have present here at the committee to introduce themselves. I might start from that end of the table there.

16:07 - 16:11

Speaker 23

I'm Renee Coffey. I'm the member for Griffith in Brisbane.

16:11 - 16:14

Speaker 8

I'm Zi Soon, the member for Banks in Southwestern Sydney.

16:15 - 16:17

Speaker 1

Tim Watts, member for Jelly Brown, the committee chair.

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