June 26, 2013: Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces that he will contest a leadership ballot of his Labour Party in Canberra, Australia. Prime Minister Julia Gillard threw open ...

Australia elected its very first female Prime Minister. Whether you supported Julia Gillard's policies during her time in parliament or not, her election represented a major crack in the glass ...

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard says she got the sense from a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that “there would be a focus on girls education” during the G7 ...

What a gloriously surprising day it was when Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister. The trumpets sounded, journalists roared, and Australian women updated their Facebook ...

Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister and the chair of King’s College’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, is determined to tackle gender inequality head on ...

Since 2007 Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been a quiet but constant presence by Kevin Rudd’s side. But on June 23 this year, the 48-year-old evidently decided that playing second fiddle ...

Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister in the bloodless coup that saw Kevin Rudd deposed. Three years and two days later, she fell to the same man. In between she led Labor ...

Sometimes it takes fresh eyes to remind. Washington, of course, knew that Julia Gillard became Australia’s 27th prime minister and the first female to hold that office last June. When Americans ...

“Smoking hot” was how many observers described Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s blistering attack on sexism and misogyny in the bear pit of Australia’s Parliament on Tuesda ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is in Queenstown this weekend for annual talks with Prime Minister John Key. Photo / Greg Bowker In New Zealand this weekend for her annual talks with Prime ...

By Pip Bulbeck Rachel Griffiths Elton John Viewing Party - P 2013 Griffiths will play Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, in the story of the tug-of-war between Gillard and ...