How did Queensland perform in those national literacy and numeracy tests?
JULIA GILLARD: The results are still being collated. It’s obviously a major statistical job to do that and that work is still being done. MADONNA KING: Will that information be made public? JULIA GILLARD: That information will be released to parents. Parents will get report cards and obviously the statistician and people who do the collating of that information are hard at work. MADONNA KING: Do our teachers need to be paid more, Julia Gillard? JULIA GILLARD: I think our teachers need to have a system where they’re rewarded for excellent teaching. MADONNA KING: Performance-based pay? JULIA GILLARD: Well I don’t like the terminology performance-based pay. It’s become associated with quite a silly plan from the Howard Government to look at raw scores and then pay on the basis of raw scores. So if you’re in the, you know, most advantaged school in the richest suburb in Australia where the kids comes from households, where mum and dad both have PhDs, then the teachers in those schools will
