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My story / Julia Gillard.

By: Publisher: North Sydney, NSW A Knopf Book, published by Random House Australia, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: viii, 504 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • still image
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780857983909
  • 0857983903
Other title:
  • Julia Gillard : my story
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 324.29407 21
Contents:
1. Becoming the first -- 2. The first days -- 3. A campaign sabotaged -- 4. Minority government -- 5. The enemy within -- 6. The curious question of gender -- 7. Resiliece -- 6. My purpose -- 9. Fighting a war -- 10. The 1961 kids -- 11. Australia in the Asian century -- 12. Respected in the world -- 13. Our queen, my birthplace, who we are today -- 14. Our first Australians -- 15. Our children -- 16. Setting alarm clocks early -- 17. Getting ready -- 18. Double tax: tax and the budget -- 19. Our atmosphere -- 20. Our water, our land -- 21. Caring for each other -- 22. The party problem -- 23. Epilogue - What now?
Summary: 'I was Prime Minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23rd June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia's 27th Prime Minister, and our first female leader. Australia was alive to the historic possibilities. Here was a new approach for a new time. It was to last three extraordinary years. This is Julia Gillard's chronicle of that turbulent time - a strikingly candid self-portrait of a political leader seeking to realise her ideals. It is her story of what it was like - in the face of government in-fighting and often hostile media - to manage a hung parliament, build a diverse and robust economy, create an equitable and world-class education system, ensure a dignified future for Australians with disabilities, all while attending to our international obligations and building strategic alliances for our future. This is a politician driven by a sense of purpose - from campus days with the Australian Union of Students, to a career in the law, to her often gritty, occasionally glittering rise up the ranks of the Australian Labor Party. Refreshingly honest, peppered with a wry humour and personal insights, Julia Gillard does not shy away from her mistakes, admitting freely to errors, misjudgements, and policy failures as well as detailing her political successes. Here is an account of what was hidden behind the resilience and dignified courage Gillard showed as prime minister - her view of the vicious hate campaigns directed against her, and a reflection on what it means - and what it takes - to be a woman leader in contemporary politics. Here, in her own words, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia's first female prime minister.
List(s) this item appears in: Stage 6 History: Movements for change in 20th century - A8: Women's movements
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 324.29407 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67535

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Becoming the first -- 2. The first days -- 3. A campaign sabotaged -- 4. Minority government -- 5. The enemy within -- 6. The curious question of gender -- 7. Resiliece -- 6. My purpose -- 9. Fighting a war -- 10. The 1961 kids -- 11. Australia in the Asian century -- 12. Respected in the world -- 13. Our queen, my birthplace, who we are today -- 14. Our first Australians -- 15. Our children -- 16. Setting alarm clocks early -- 17. Getting ready -- 18. Double tax: tax and the budget -- 19. Our atmosphere -- 20. Our water, our land -- 21. Caring for each other -- 22. The party problem -- 23. Epilogue - What now?

'I was Prime Minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23rd June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia's 27th Prime Minister, and our first female leader. Australia was alive to the historic possibilities. Here was a new approach for a new time. It was to last three extraordinary years. This is Julia Gillard's chronicle of that turbulent time - a strikingly candid self-portrait of a political leader seeking to realise her ideals. It is her story of what it was like - in the face of government in-fighting and often hostile media - to manage a hung parliament, build a diverse and robust economy, create an equitable and world-class education system, ensure a dignified future for Australians with disabilities, all while attending to our international obligations and building strategic alliances for our future. This is a politician driven by a sense of purpose - from campus days with the Australian Union of Students, to a career in the law, to her often gritty, occasionally glittering rise up the ranks of the Australian Labor Party. Refreshingly honest, peppered with a wry humour and personal insights, Julia Gillard does not shy away from her mistakes, admitting freely to errors, misjudgements, and policy failures as well as detailing her political successes. Here is an account of what was hidden behind the resilience and dignified courage Gillard showed as prime minister - her view of the vicious hate campaigns directed against her, and a reflection on what it means - and what it takes - to be a woman leader in contemporary politics. Here, in her own words, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia's first female prime minister.

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