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
The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.
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 first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.
In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.
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.
I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.
I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.
Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.
Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.
...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.
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.