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My Story

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My Story

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SKU: 9781760893330 Category: Product ID: 12882

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Title: My Story
Author: GILLARD JULIA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2019
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active

On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked 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. In the immediate aftermath of the leadership, here is her 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.

With new material and fresh insights, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia’s first female prime minister.

ISBN: 9781760893330
Weight: 434gr
Dimension: 196mm X 131mm
Pages: 544

Additional information

Weight 434 g
Dimensions 196 × 131 × 40 mm