on 01-10-2013 08:01 AM
1. On how she chose to conduct herself immediately after losing the Prime Ministership:
Gillard thought it best to “give a gift of silence to the Labor party throughout the course of the campaign; to do absolutely nothing”.
2. On the key difference between herself and Kevin Rudd:
“I think the key difference is every day I was deputy prime minister I spent all of my time doing everything I could to have the Labor government prosper.”
3. On seeing sexist and offensive cartoons and statements about herself on social media:
She felt not sadness or hurt but, ”more like murderous rage really”.
“For my personal liberty, it’s probably a good thing that I didn’t focus on them… At the end of the day, yes, it happened to me, but it’s not, you know, about me. It’s about all of us, about women and about the kind of society we want to be for all of us.”
4. On playing the so-called ‘gender card’:
“It just amazes me that we can be having this infantile conversation about gender wars, and … you just feel like saying: ‘Well, if it was your daughter and she was putting up with sexist abuse at work, what would you advise her to do?’” Gillard said.
“Because apparently if she complains, she is playing the victim, and playing gender wars, and if she doesn’t complain, then she really is a victim.”
5. On what an average day was like in her job as Prime Minister:
Gillard would go through the papers in the morning, remaking most days to her Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan: “Polls are **bleep**. Papers are **bleep**. Yep, yes they are, Wayne.”
6. On what advice she would give to new Prime Minister Tony Abbott:
“It is a big step from criticising what you think is wrong to working out and implementing what you think is right. On current indications, Prime Minister Abbott is intending to take that step slowly. And for all of us, I think that might well be a good thing.”
7. On whether she would like to see Hillary Clinton run for the American Presidency in 2016:
“Wouldn’t it be fantastic to follow the first African American president, with the first woman president?”
8. On what advice she would give Tony Abbott now that’s he’s brought the women’s portfolio within his own Government department.
“Ask Tanya [Plibersek].”
9. On how she managed to stay motivated in the face of “horrible sexism”:
Gillard first responded to the question, asked by an 11-year-old girl, cautioning: ”I now need to answer [the question] not using words that are inappropriate… How old are you again?”
She continued, “In moments of some, you know, stress and pressure, for example, when I was getting myself together to go out and give my final speech as Prime Minister, I certainly did say to myself that I wouldn’t give those people the satisfaction of seeing me shed a tear – I wouldn’t do that.”
10. On whether she would encourage women to think about pursuing politics:
If she could go back and advise another woman in her own position – about to be the nation’s first female PM – Gillard said she “…would still say to her: do it. Because the benefits of what you get to do are far superior to the burdens”
11. On what it will be like for Australia’s next female Prime Minister:
“I think even people who may not remember me as a good PM, I think for whoever the next woman is, there will be a bit of a pause, breathe, whatever else this female Prime Minister does, we don’t want it to be like that for her again.”
on 03-10-2013 07:18 PM
on 03-10-2013 07:24 PM
so julia cant get a green card for tim?
how convenient lol
on 03-10-2013 07:50 PM
@*ibis wrote:so julia cant get a green card for tim?
how convenient lol
Ibis , non resident would mean that a green card is not needed for either of them
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do you need a definition for non-resident ?
on 03-10-2013 07:59 PM
yes i think i do
on 03-10-2013 09:24 PM
Julia Gillard will use her credentials as an "education reformer" when she starts work with a leading US think tank on advancing girls' schooling in developing countries.
A 2011 study examining think tank employee donations from 2003 to 2010 showed that 97.6% of Brookings's employees' political donations went to Democrats.
Oh gosh, Democrats and "girls' schooling" sounds like whatever you think sounds good.
You want to "moan" about sexism, stop displaying it, and think about the demise of a male, Rudd..
on 03-10-2013 09:28 PM
this thread is about Julia Gillard . She is not Kevin Rudd .
on 03-10-2013 09:58 PM
advancing girls' schooling in developing countries.
as far as that being sexist
if 2/3 of the illiterate people in the world weren't women ....I may agree
on 03-10-2013 10:28 PM
on 04-10-2013 11:07 AM
MM,Considering the chuckle store threads of yours . I'm sure that you wouldn't/couldn't have a problem with another poster posting that post of yours in another thread which asks
Are We Living In A Fundamentally Sexist Society ?
there is so much in the one post which would be beneficial to that thread
the post where you suggested I stop being sexist and think about 'The Man' ...on a thread about Julia Gillard