Soren wrote on Jun 24
th, 2010 at 11:53am:
athos wrote on Jun 24
th, 2010 at 11:37am:
Julia Gillard new Australian PM
Julia Gillard, first female and first overseas born person, became the new Australian Prime Minister.
The most important is to prevent former John Howard’s gunman Tony Abbot, failed catholic priest, to come to power and bring Australia back to dark ages of John Howard’s leadership.
You must be really peeved, athos - now we have not only a 'pome' head of state but a 'pome' head of government! Both women! Talk about nanny state!!!!
She was born in Wales and belongs to superior kind of humans called WOMEN. What a lovely Lady. Kevin is also a nice man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard#Early_life
Early life
Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in 1961.[6] Her father was a coal miner in Wales, and she has a sister, Alison, who is three years older;[7] Nye Bevan remains one of her political heroes.[8]
After suffering from bronchopneumonia as a child, her parents were advised it would aid her recovery in a warmer climate.[7] Resultantly, in 1966 the family migrated to Australia, settling in Adelaide.[9]
Her father trained as a psychiatric nurse, while her mother worked at the local Salvation Army Old People's Home.[7] Gillard and her sister attended Mitcham Demonstration School, and then graduated from Unley High School in 1978.[10] She then attended the University of Adelaide, and on graduation moved to Melbourne to work with the Australian Union of Students (AUS).[7] In 1987 she graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws degree and with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990.[11]
In 1987 she joined left-leaning law firm Slater & Gordon at Werribee, working in the area of industrial law.[12] In 1990 at the age of 29, she was admitted as one of their first female partners.[8]
In a 2007 interview, Gillard stated: “I used to think I wanted to be a school teacher. There was an English teacher at Mitcham Primary [in Adelaide], who was a real stickler for standards and grammar and punctuation but who was also very kindly. I thought teachers were good; I thought it would be a rewarding job, seeing the eyes of young people light up with new information. I got talked out of that ambition for good or for ill by a school friend’s mother, who said, ‘No, you’re really good at arguing and debating, you should try law.’ If I hadn’t been pre-selected for the seat of Lalor and run successfully in the 1998 election, I’d probably still be somewhere in and around the law; public sector law perhaps. Maybe giving tutorials, trying to pound law into other people’s heads.” [13]
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