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今天的报纸赞扬了付总理兼教育部长Julia Gillard处理危机的能力和高超的谈判技巧。
另外一篇社论甚至于调侃说,从Julia Gillard的解决这件事情的水平来看,可以让她去中东解决那里的国际危机。
还说她现在应该让陆克文下台自己当总理,那么工党明年大选还有希望。
Win ... Julia Gillard, in a classroom with grade 5 and 6 students at St Anthony's Primary School in Melton, Victoria
Pic: David Geraghty Source: The Daily Telegraph
Gillard peace deal fuels leadership talk
By Simon Benson, Gemma Jones and Richard Noone
From: The Daily Telegraph May 07, 2010 12:00AM
THE Federal Government secured a rare political victory yesterday after Education Minister Julia Gillard brokered an unlikely deal to end the teachers' boycott of next week's national numeracy and literacy tests.
After being accused of holding tens of thousands of parents and students to ransom in NSW by refusing to administer the tests at the heart of the My School website, teacher unions agreed to back down following Ms Gillard's intervention.
After a month of political disasters for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Ms Gillard's ability to smooth a path to reform of the national education system renewed speculation that she was cementing herself as a legitimate threat to the leadership. Yesterday, she was forced to hose down questions about her leadership ambitions. With Mr Rudd's popularity now at its lowest point since his election victory in 2007, and Labor now trailing the Coalition for the first time since 2006, talk has again turned to Ms Gillard as an alternative leader.
Although no Labor MPs were suggesting that a transition to Ms Gillard happen before an election, many are now openly talking about a change, possibly within six months of the poll.
"This is sure to create further doubts about Rudd in the caucus, which is already jittery about what has happened over the last month" one Labor MP said.
Another said that while Ms Gillard was from the minority Left faction, she had support among some of Rudd's own clique and even from the Right.
Yesterday's teacher about-face on NAPLAN came after a meeting with the Australian Education Union in which Ms Gillard offered to establish a working party with union representatives to monitor how the results are released on the My School website.
In return, the union agreed to drop its boycott.
However, there are now fears that public school students will sit the tests under-prepared because teachers had refused to provide practice lessons.
Students in private schools have been practising for weeks and their teachers have been familiarising students with the style of questions and exam format.
A Teachers Federation spokeswoman said the moratorium unions had imposed covered preparation.
"It is not meant to be studied for, it's not like the HSC. It is meant to be diagnostic, it is not meant to be a high stakes competitive test," she said.
Eleven principals held an emergency meeting two weeks ago when they expressed fears they would not have time to prepare students if testing went ahead.
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth said she expected students would be ready.
"Everything students need to know for the tests are taught day-to-day as part of the normal curriculum," Ms Firth said.
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