Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillardis a former Australian politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, as leader of the Australian Labor Party. She previously served as the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and held the cabinet positions of Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion from 2007 to 2010. She was the first and to date only woman to hold the positions of deputy prime minister, prime...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth29 September 1961
CountryAustralia
Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin goals of raising national prosperity and creating a fair and decent society.
Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.
We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.
If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.
All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.
There are some things that can't be measured.
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,
In politics there's never a magic wand.
The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.
Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.
Try harder every day to be better than the day before.
So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.