Paul McKeown said it was distressing "to see that intimidation is starting up again from both the ACT Teachers' Federation and the ACT Trades and Labour Council".

The ACT TLC, to which the teachers' federation is affiliated, had voted unanimously the night prior to ban further development of Radford until the government provided adequate funding for public schools this financial year.

Mr McKeown said this would stop the college's move into a second stage which would allow for the enrolment of students up to the end of year 10.

"The college is being used to blackmail the government into giving further funds to the ACT authority schools," Mr McKeown said.

Opposition has also been expressed to the development of the school to include students for the final years, 11 and 12.

"I do hope this intolerable intrusion into the freedom of citizens to order their lives will stir opposition from all sensible people in this city," he said.

The TLC also decided on Wednesday not to remove its bans on the development on the shores of Lake Ginninderra to enable a secondary college for Belconnen to be built there.

Mr McKeown said it was now clear that there would be a shortage of some 700 places in years 11 and 12 in Belconnen in future. There was no substance in the statement that students would be taken from places in existing schools.

See https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122532949/13749196