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Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia and the leader of the Labor Party (ALP) from 2010 to 2013. Born in Barry, Wales and raised in Adelaide , she served as the member of parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Lalor from 1998 to 2013.
The 2010 Australian federal election was held on Saturday, 21 August 2010 to elect members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia.The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a second term against the opposition centre-right Liberal Party of Australia led by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Coalition partner the National Party of Australia, led by ...
This left Gillard to assume the leadership unopposed. Wayne Swan, Treasurer of Australia at the time, was elected to fill Gillard's now vacant position as Deputy Leader, also unopposed. [22] [23] Rudd resigned as prime minister at midday, and Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia shortly afterwards.
Julia Gillard (b. 1961) MP for Lalor, Vic — (42nd) 24 June 2010 27 June 2013: 3 years, 3 days Labor: 1st Gillard [40] 2010 (43rd) 2nd Gillard (26) Kevin Rudd (b. 1957) MP for Griffith, Qld — (43rd) 27 June 2013 18 September 2013 83 days Labor: 2nd Rudd [39] 28 Tony Abbott (b. 1957) MP for Warringah, NSW: 2013 (44th) 18 September 2013 15 ...
Julia Gillard (born 1961) Labor: 24 June 2010 27 June 2013 3 years, 3 days 2010 [15] 16. 29th Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954) Liberal: 15 September 2015 24 August 2018 2 years, 343 days 2016 [16] 17. 21st Gough Whitlam (1916–2014) Labor: 5 December 1972 11 November 1975 2 years, 341 days 1972, 1974 [17] 18. 26th Kevin Rudd (born 1957) Labor: 3 ...
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.
Asked by her predecessor at the helm of the Wellcome Trust, crossbench peer Baroness Manningham-Buller, where science must be in 10 years’ time, Ms Gillard replied: “I think using AI for good.”
A leadership spill in the Australian Labor Party, the party of government in the Parliament of Australia, was held on 21 March 2013. Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a ballot for the Leadership and Deputy Leadership of the Labor Party for 4.30pm, following a press conference by former Labor Leader and Regional Minister Simon Crean over persistent leadership tensions.