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The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, said the Council of Australian Governments today agreed to establish a new national education authority that will bring together, for the first time, the functions of curriculum, assessment and reporting at the national level. COAG’s historic decision was driven by the unprecedented agreement reached between Commonwealth, State and Territory education ministers to end the blame game by working collaboratively through the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. The new authority will be the key driver of the Australian Government’s Education Revolution. It will be responsible for delivering the national curriculum initiative and the transparency and performance reporting agenda announced by the Prime Minister last month.