Video 25 Jul Learning Topic. I know reform is never easy, but I know reform is right. C 10 March Display as: List Grid. Video 11 Aug Event 11 Aug Event 16 Jul Speech 5 May Election Speeches, Museum of Australian Democracy. Article 6 Jun Article 9 May Article 23 Feb Article 16 Feb Article 18 Dec Article 8 Dec Article 7 Dec He continued to dog his one-time ally, and she was forced to face down two leadership challenges before losing a third in June Born in the Welsh port town of Barry in , Ms Gillard migrated to Australia with her parents when she was four.
An outstanding student in her home town, Adelaide, she became president of the Australian Union of Students at Melbourne University in She worked as a lawyer for a firm specialising in class actions and industrial relations, becoming partner at Slater and Gordon in Moving into politics, she became the chief-of-staff to Victoria state opposition leader John Brumby, and then won a seat in parliament in Kevin Rudd entered parliament at the same time as Ms Gillard and they formed an alliance in While in the Rudd government she held several portfolios, including minister for employment and workplace relations, minister for education, and minister for social inclusion - as well as the deputy prime minister post.
She has been described as a good negotiator and a consensus politician - a sharp contrast to Mr Rudd, who was criticised by some for his top-down style of leadership. Julia Gillard's rise to the top job in Australian politics has not been a smooth one. When she entered parliament in , the Welsh-born Gillard was mocked for her nasal voice, her hairstyle, her dress sense and her failure to embrace domestic life.
But the unmarried and childless Gillard rose above it, and today, after becoming Australia's first female prime minister , said: "I'm aware I'm the first woman to sit in this role but I didn't set out to crash my head against any glass ceilings.
Her toughness and willingness to stand up for herself is perhaps derived from her working-class background. After the election, she was elected to the Shadow Cabinet, group of senior Opposition spokespeople who form an alternative Cabinet to the government's.
In , Gillard became the first female deputy prime minister of Australia, also serving as minister for education, minister for employment and workplace relations, and minister for social inclusion. After Rudd resigned on June 24, , Gillard was elected as the Leader of the Labor Party, becoming the 27th prime minister of Australia. When the election resulted in a hung parliament, Gillard formed a minority government with the support of a Green MP and three independent MPs. On June 26, , Gillard lost the leadership of the Labor Party to Rudd and her resignation as prime minister took effect the next day.
Since leaving office, Gillard was appointed an honorary visiting professor at the University of Adelaide. In October , she joined the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education as a nonresident senior fellow. In February , she was announced as chair of Global Partnership for Education.
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