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The first female Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard led the world’s 12th largest economy out of the financial crisis and through a period of significant reform. She is now the Chair of the Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest charitable funders of medical research and other activity to improve human health, and the Chair of Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London.

Shortly after being elected to parliament, Julia joined the shadow cabinet at the office for Population and Immigration and was soon after appointed Deputy Leader of the Opposition. The following general election saw her become the first female Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. She went on to deliver several impassioned speeches on gender equality in parliamentary question time which saw her described as "the best parliamentary performer on the Labor side”. Julia later served as Minister for Education, overseeing the introduction of landmark programmes for literacy and numeracy, and in the process fostering a career-long passion for education.

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Life’s Work: An Interview with Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard was Australia’s prime minister from 2010 to 2013 and is the only woman to have held the position. Drawn into politics as a student activist, she persevered through early election defeats to win a Labor Party seat and then served as deputy prime minister under Kevin Rudd before eventually challenging him for the top job. In 2012 she gained global fame for a speech decrying misogyny. A year later Rudd won a leadership contest against her, and she left government. She now focuses on advocacy for causes including education, gender equity, and mental health because, as she recently told the Simmons Leadership Conference, “If you are really passionate about something and raise your voice, you can make a difference.”

A version of this article appeared in the November–December 2019 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Alison Beard is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review and co-host of the HBR IdeaCast podcast. She previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. A mom of two, she tries—and someti

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Triumph and Demise

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Featuring a new introduction in response to Julia Gillard's memoir, this revised edition brings Paul Kelly's masterpiece on the Rudd-Gillard years up to the present Drawing on more than sixty on-the-record interviews with all the major players, Triumph and Demise is full of remarkable disclosures. It is the inside account of the hopes, achievements and bitter failures of the Labor Government from 2007 to 2013. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard came together to defeat John Howard, formed a brilliant partnership and raised the hopes of the nation. Yet they fell into tension and then hostility under the pressures of politics and policy. Veteran journalist Paul Kelly probes the dynamics of the Rudd-Gillard partnership and dissects what tore them apart. He tells the full story of Julia Gillard's tragedy as our first female prime minister—her character, Rudd's destabilisation, the carbon tax saga and how Gillard was finally pulled down on the…

Featuring a new introduction in response to Julia Gillard's memoir, this revised edition brings Paul Kell