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
It seems the minister for health is happy to talk about the role of nurses when it suits him but has failed to take the profession of nursing seriously.
These increases, in dollar terms, wipe out the contribution of the Government's (30 per cent) rebate.
Labor supports the Productivity Commission's recommendation with regard to the delegation of tasks and ensuring that the MBS (Medicare Benefits Schedule) provides adequate incentives for this to happen.
I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
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.
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.
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.
The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.
We of course remember the days when the leader of the house was the bovver boy, stand over man of Australian politics, now he's just pathetic and this is just a pathetic resolution moved to try and guillotine this debate through this House from a minister who only yesterday ... was complaining about debate being guillotined.
There is a reason the world always looks to America.