National Curriculum:Evil or Enlightenment

In Judith Wheeldon's article"Labour the lesser evil" in the AustralianMarch 3,she very objectively tackles the issue of a national curriculum.
It is clear to me that a loss of diversity can be very dangerous, witness the moral horror of totalitarian regimes and movements that use their grip on education to promote their own ends ,brainwash the population, stifle creative thinking and critical reflection to produce a conformist mass.This is the Evil that a national curriculum could result in.
Of course this is an extreme, but even a small degree of using a national curriculum to further the ends of a political party is anathema to anyone who upholde the ideals of human beings becoming ever more conscious,free and individually responsible
.Judith Wheeldon recognises that the reasons for promoting the national curriculum are specious;particularly the reason of consistency for students who move interstate.Only 80,000 students per annum form this statistic. This number is too small to warrant the enormous change being suggested.
However, there is a possibility that an educational curriculum that is progressive, enlightened, innovative and inspired was able to be instituted as a national curriculum, this could reach all the population and help create a community of creative inspired and enlightened people able to have the means of solving future problems and meeting future moral and social challenges in an intelligent and responsible way.
The important element that must be a foundation for any new curriculum development is the primacy given to the development of creativity and critical reflection.A wholistic curriculum that encourages higher order learning in each subject
from K12 is to be highly recommended.