The Queensland Liberal-National government has ousted two union-linked board members from the state’s curriculum body and will replace them with conservative figures, including the founding chair of the rightwing lobby group Advance.

The Queensland Teachers’ Union president, Cresta Richardson, and the branch secretary of the Independent Education Union of Australia, Terry Burke, will both be removed from the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority board, the education minister John-Paul Langbroek’s office confirmed on Thursday.

They will be replaced by Leesa Jeffcoat, a long-term former diocesan director of Catholic Education, and James Power, a Queensland businessman, hotelier and nephew of Power Brewing founder Bernie Power. All fail Caesar: students at eight schools taught

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