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Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who was the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She held office as the leader of the Labor Party and was the member of parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Lalor from 1998 to 2013.
Amanda Diana Bishop (born 10 December 1979) is an Australian actress and comedian, known for her comedy portrayals of Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia, in the television comedy At Home with Julia. Bishop had previously portrayed Gillard in the series Double Take, when Gillard was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
At Home with Julia is a four-part Australian sitcom television series, created and written by Amanda Bishop, Rick Kalowski and Phil Lloyd, which debuted on 7 September 2011 on ABC1. A re-run of the series aired on ABC2 in April 2012.
The Gillard government was the Government of Australia led by the 27th prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, of the Australian Labor Party.The Gillard government succeeded the first Rudd government by way of the Labor Party leadership spill, and began on 24 June 2010, with Gillard sworn in as prime minister by the governor-general of Australia, Quentin Bryce.
In November 2020, a song titled "Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech" was released by Sydney punk rockers Scabz as a track on their debut album Pressure. [52] [53] In 2022, with Gillard's permission, singer Karen Jacobsen composed a pop orchestral work with the words of the speech set to music, titled "Better Standard Than This". [54]
The 504-page political memoir was released in September 2014 by Random House, almost a year and a half after Gillard's departure from Australian politics. [2] The former Governor-General of Australia, Dame Quentin Bryce (2008–2014), launched the book at an event that was attended by various Labor party figures, including Gillard's former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan, Greg ...
In July 2012, John Pirona, a victim of notorious priest Father John Denham, took his own life. Pirona left a note that said "Too Much Pain". [19] The prime minister, Julia Gillard, visited Newcastle on 8 August 2012, the day of Pirona's funeral, where mourners backed The Newcastle Herald's "Shine the Light" campaign for a royal commission.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard filmed a guest appearance. [4] The show also features a trip to Disneyland California. The series was won by Greta Yaxley from Claremont, Western Australia .