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On his elegant memoir the former British prime minister Tony Blair describes his reaction when he walked into 10 Downing Street for the first time: “My predominant reaction was fear…” If Blair felt this way, after a landslide victory,imagine what must have been going through Julia Gillard’s mind the night she failed to secure an outright [...] COAG meeting, Canberra 13 February 2011. L to R: Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally, Prime Minister Julia Gillard Read my latest article on the double-standard that is applied to women in politics, especially to their marital and maternal status and everything about their appearance from their hair styles to the way they wave their hands As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard battles to stitch together a coalition so she can form a government, following the tied results of the federal election on August 21, I looked at how two previous women leaders fared: Canada’s Kim Campbell and Israel Tzipi Livni. Read my article My article in last Saturday’s Age looks at the gender gap in support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the diabolical attempts to undermine it – at the cost of a Labor victory this coming Saturday. Read the article The Age June 26, 2010 It is Gillard’s ability to connect with, surprise and delight a wide range of people that is her ace card, writes Anne Summers. THERE’S a story in Sydney, perhaps apocryphal but certainly instructive, of how some time last year the hard men of the NSW Labor Party (the “Sussex Street assassins” as [...] |
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