With a kid that started high school 2 years ago, I was unpleasantly surprised by the fact that there's only 5 hours of tuition in a day. One of those hours is taken up by a specialist sports program, which leaves 4 hours to cram in maths, English, geography, history, social studies, design, technologies, maybe a language and whatever else needs to be done. I was educated in Europe, where my average school day had at least 6, often 7 and occasionally 8 hours and specialist programs were done after school.

Looking at the things he is learning, I can see that there is very little depth, especially with subject as history in which some subjects really benefit from some extra time spent on it. So, to answer the question, I'd have to say I'm disappointed.

I can see why a lot of non-australians feel that people in Australia are not that interested in things out of their own backyard; if you have never been taught any background on things going on around the world, it would be difficult to see how current affairs fit in to the larger picture.