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Australia Gets Its 1st Female Prime Minister

CANBERRA, Australia (June 23) -- Australia got its first female prime minister on Thursday after the ruling party dumped Kevin Rudd and installed his deputy as leader. Julia Gillard will lead the government to elections due within months. She stood unopposed at a vote of the Labor Party's 112 lawmakers at a meeting...

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12/11/11 Australia's Prime Minister Shuffles Cabinet Source: The Wall Street Journal SYDNEYâAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard shuffled her cabinet Monday in an effort to assert her authority after a torrid year for the minority Labor government.
06/30/11 Australia's prime minister: One year on Source: The Economist - Asia WHEN she defenestrated Kevin Rudd to become Australia's first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard claimed that "a good government was losing its way".
04/06/11 Australia: Prime Minister's Literary Awards Source: Splinters What: Australia's richest literary prize, the winning book in each category receives a tax-free award of AUD80,000.
03/09/11 Australia prime minister lauds Reagan Source: Politico Gillard, the first foreign leader to speak before a joint meeting of this Congress, pledged her country's support to the United States, including its military, which is engaged in Afghanistan.
09/14/10 Gillard sworn in as Australia's Prime Minister Source: New Kerala Dot Com Australia's first elected female Prime Minister Julia Gillard was Tuesday sworn in along with her 19 cabinet ministers in Canberra.