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
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
I'm on the record as saying things like I think it's important for people to understand their Bible stories, not because I'm an advocate of religion - clearly, I'm not - but once again, what comes from the Bible has formed such an important part of our culture.
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.
In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.
Try harder every day to be better than the day before.
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.
The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.
In politics there's never a magic wand.
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,
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.
Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.