John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I would have thought that it was self-evident that you do need the involvement and cooperation of state governments. My experience is that sometimes state governments cooperate with you and sometimes they do not. Sometimes some state governments cooperate with you and one does not—although hopefully later on that state government will cooperate with you. I have to say that, over the past few weeks, every time the issue of a national curriculum has been raised the reaction of state education ministers—

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