Australian Personality # 3 - Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard is currently the deputy leader of the Australian Labour Party. She held various positions in government and is seen as the voters’ preferred labour leader, according Ipsos Mackay’s poll.

She is strongly supporting Kevin Rudd, the Labour Party Prime Minister candidate, who is challenging the liberal policies of Howard, the Prime Minister in the last 10 years. If Rudd wins and she is still the Deputy Leader, she will be the Deputy Prime Minister, which means she will act as Prime Minister when he is overseas or otherwise unavailable, a position never before held by a woman in Australia.

Julia is single, has no children, migrated to Australia when she was 5 and appears as one of the female leaders in the country.