The NSW Education Department has launched a new, outrageous attack on fathers. The department's 2026 School Planner Calendar for Cultural Diversity lists Mother's Day and Grandparents Day. Yet Father's Day has been dropped. In its place, that weekend is marked for Krishna Janmashtami, a Hindu festival most NSW families have never heard of. Good fathers make a real difference in a child's life. Increasingly, though, our institutions treat men as a problem to be managed rather than a presence to be celebrated, and this is what that looks like in practice: a woke bureaucracy quietly dropping the one day set aside for fathers, while leaving every other family member's day untouched. That's political correctness, plain and simple. And it's part of a wider pattern: One Sydney school recently merged its Mother's Day and Father's Day activities into a single "Parents and Loved Ones Day," so as not to "isolate" anyone. Kids notice what gets celebrated and what doesn't. Drop Father's Day from the calendar while keeping Mother's Day and Grandparents Day, and the message to every child is clear: honouring Mum matters, honouring Dad is negotiable. That’s why your Family First Party is calling on Education Minister Prue Car to reinstate Father's Day on the calendar, alongside Mother's Day and Grandparents Day. Sign the petition and tell the NSW Government fathers deserve to be named too.
