Prime Minister Gillard faces a ballot in her party room tomorrow (February 27) to retain her leadership of the ALP and her job as leader of the country. In my article in today’s newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne (the Sunday Age and the Sun-Herald) I examine the relentless slurs against her because of her gender. [...]
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My latest article in the Sydney Morning Herald looks at how Julia Gillard’s assets are not being conveyed to the voting public. Read the article My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor [...] 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 |
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