Tag: Julia Gillard

Treasurer Wayne Swan has been forced to defend the Labor Party’s moves to oust former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd through caucus dealing at the G20 conference in Toronto, Canada.

Not surprising this week’s blog is about our new PM. But not about whether she will be good or bad. I will leave that for the political pundits.

Julia Gillard’s rise to Prime Minister yesterday and the media aftermath that has followed after ousting Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister triggered a wave of interest in the topic in Google searches.

Julia Gillard has ousted Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister of Australia after a 9am Labor caucus meeting which saw Ms Gillard elected unopposed after Kevin Rudd stood down.

The Goodstart consortium will take over 570 child care centres from ABC Learning today, however some landlords are creating headaches for the Federal Government.

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was has been touring Southern Queensland to sell last week’s budget at the request of the Federal Labor candidate for Hinkler Belinda McNeven.

The Australian Labor Party has been quick to jump on the admission of Tony Abbott that what he says is not always the truth with an ad campaign targeting the opposition leader.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has admitted that unless the words coming from his mouth are scripted, that voters cannot trust him to tell the truth.

Auditor-General Ian McPhee has released his report into Kevin Rudd’s $16.2billion Building the Education Revolution (BER), with the audit lacking any clear conclusions on the program.

Employees of liquidated companies stand to receive $150 million through the General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme (GEERS) if the Federal Government manages to push extra funding through parliament. Initially budgeted at $80 million, the scheme will require almost double the amount to cope with the increase in redundancies. Minister for Workplace Relations Julia Gillard […]