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
Julia Gillard quotes about
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.
If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.
There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.
I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.
Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way
If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.
I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.
There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.
The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.
The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.