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Between nostalgia and amnesia: the legacy of Julia Gillard as PM, 10 years after her ousting

On June 26 2013, as she fronted the press gallery in Canberra after her removal as leader of the Labor Party, Julia Gillard was determined not to cry. In her prime ministerial resignation speech, she asked not for pity, but rather for a meaningful national conversation about gender and politics,…

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‘Leader of conviction and courage’ Simon Crean dead at 74

The Australian Labor Party is mourning the death on Sunday of Simon Crean, a Labor prince who never became king.

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Tributes flow after former Labor leader Simon Crean dies age 74

Crean, former opposition leader and ACTU president, died suddenly while overseas on Sunday

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Labour will appoint diversity tsar to remove barriers to enter politics

Exclusive: Women, ethnic minorities and those from working-class backgrounds will be urged to stand for office

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Former PM Julia Gillard announces Beyond Blue's support for Indigenous Voice to Parliament as Ken Wyatt joins board

Former prime minister Julia Gillard throws her support behind the Yes vote as former minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt is appointed to Beyond Blue's board.

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Poor pay driving workers from early education sector

SA's Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care has been told that poor pay is the main issue driving workers from the sector.

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Call to recognise Indigenous skills of early educators

SA's royal commission into early childhood education and care has been told of the importance of recognising the special skills brought by Indigenous educators.

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‘I got it wrong’: Gillard’s same-sex marriage admission

Julia Gillard has admitted she was "wrong" to oppose same-sex marriage while she was prime minister.

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Julia Gillard admits she 'got it wrong' on same-sex marriage debate

Former prime minister Julia Gillard concedes that her desire to have a debate around the merit of marriage in modern society, instead of supporting same-sex marriage itself, was "wrong".

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Trade Minister Don Farrell given surprise Forbidden City tour, China's foreign minister to visit Australia

Senator Farrell says he is "very privileged to be invited here to this iconic site" as a former Chinese diplomat describes the unexpected invitation as a "very high-level welcome from Beijing".

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Women leaders are no more morally pure than men

We’ve long believed women leaders would challenge and change selfish and materialist values they found at the top. But evidence suggests not.

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Single parenting payment cut-off lifted from eight to 14

Financial support for single parents will continue until their youngest dependent child turns 14, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces.

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$Jim Chalmers says the Coalition racked up all but a 'tiny fraction' of $1 trillion in debt left to Labor. Is that correct?$

Jim Chalmers says the Coalition racked up all but a 'tiny fraction' of $1 trillion in debt left to Labor. Is that correct?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says that Labor inherited a trillion dollars of "Liberal debt" when it came to office, and that Labor's share of that, left to the previous Coalition government was "a tiny fraction". RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.

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How removing parenting payments when children turned 8 harmed rather than helped single mothers

As the government weighs up whether to extend single parenting payments to parents of children older than the present cutoff age of eight in this week’s budget, new information has come to light about what happened when the rules were tightened in 2013.

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Eat your words, Pauline Hanson

Senator Mehreen Faruqi is suing One Nation’s Pauline Hanson over her tweet last year telling the Greens deputy leader to ‘pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan’, and more than 250,000 nurses, carers, cooks and homecare workers will get a 15% pay rise from July 1.

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JobSeeker carve-out reeks of focus group politics — and underestimates voters

If Labor was hoping to get a tick of approval for the possibility of higher JobSeeker payments for over-55s, it’ll be severely disappointed.

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On welfare, can Albanese rescue his relationship with the past?

The federal budget is likely to include changes to JobSeeker and the parenting payment. But will they be enough?

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'It was a rocky road': celebrating 10 years of ACT icon many opposed

The arboretum took a while to find a place in Canberrans' hearts.

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Hell hath no fury like a former PM – but it wasn't always so

In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

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Alan Kohler: Something strange and sad is happening to the Labor Party

Something strange and sad has happened to Labor. The policy courage of Whitlam, Hawke and Keating has been replaced.

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Consent advocate joins global institute to make 'structural impact on society'

The consent education advocate will start a new youth committee.

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Early educators around the world feel burnt out and devalued. Here's how we can help

South Australia’s royal commission into early childhood education led by Julia Gillard has released an interim report. The key recommendation is preschool for all three-year-olds (in a move similar to other states). But the report notes one of the critical considerations around this change will be the early education workforce.

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Inquiry calls for universal preschool for three-year-olds to be rolled out in SA from 2026

A royal commission, led by former prime minister Julia Gillard, has recommended 15 hours per week of preschool be made available to all three-year-olds in South Australia.

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Gillard calls for all three-year-olds to do preschool

Former prime minister Julia Gillard has recommended preschool education be provided to all three-year-olds in SA in her interim royal commission report.

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There’s good reason why strong female role models deter other women from aiming for the top

When those who reach the highest office suffer such brutal misogyny, is it any wonder that breaking the glass ceiling doesn’t look like much fun?

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