Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Australia PM Rudd quits; Julia Gillard to lead

Editors Note: We are very happy to see Rudd ousted as he was very unpopular. Especially with his proposed super tax of up to 40% on Mining Companies.
I am a little concerned about the new PM’s, Julia Gillard’s age. At only 49 nine years old does she have the knowledge to run a country?
At any rate we wish her all the best. At least with a parlimentary system they can remove her quickly if she does not prove to be a good leader.
We wish her all the best for Australians sake.



http://www.marketwatch.com/story/australia-pm-rudd-quits-julia-gillard-to-lead-2010-06-23


LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stepped down Thursday in the face of a party leadership challenge by his deputy Julia Gillard. Gillard was elected Labor Party leader unopposed and will become Australia's first woman prime minister.

Rudd's popularity had fallen sharply in recent weeks, in part over controversy surrounding plans for a new mining tax scheme. Treasurer Wayne Swan will succeed Gillard as deputy prime minister, a party spokesman said.


According to Wikipedia.
Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is a Welsh-born Australian politician representing the Australian Labor Party who was elected its leader on 24 June 2010 after being the deputy leader since 4 December 2006, entitling her to become Prime Minister once she is sworn-in by Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

Since 3 December 2007 she has been the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, the first woman and the first foreign-born person to hold this position.

This makes her the highest-ranking woman in the history of Australia's federal parliament. After the resignation of Kevin Rudd on 24 June 2010, she has become the first woman to serve as the Prime Minister of Australia.

On 11 December 2007[2] she became the first woman in Australia's history to assume the prime ministerial role, when she acted as prime minister while Kevin Rudd attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali.[3]

She is also the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion.[4]

Gillard was elected unopposed as Leader of the Australian Labor Party at a special caucus meeting on 24 June 2010, making her the first female leader of the Australian Labor Party.

Gillard has been an ALP member of the House of Representatives since the 1998 federal election.

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