Fed: Blame the gov't for any cash flow delay, opposition=2

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2008
Fed: Blame the gov't for any cash flow delay, opposition=2

Senator Fielding accused the government of using bully-boy tactics.

"We are talking about schools and they are using the school yard of parliament to try
and bully parliamentarians into signing up for something unseen. That is outrageous,"

he told reporters.

The national curriculum did not need to be tied to the funding bill, even though most
Australians agreed there should be a national curriculum.

"The debate we are having is should schools be forced to sign up to an unseen national
curriculum? Most Australians would say no."

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon, who voted for the draft laws, says the government
had set out the basis for a national curriculum.

"I would have thought that's enough," he told reporters.

"If we don't sort this out every MP is going to be in for detention because ... we
will be sitting this out until we do."

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