Gillard Breaks With Tax Policies That Doomed Rudd
Category Australia | Thursday, June 24th, 2010Julia Gillard began her job as Australia’s first female prime minister by promising to smooth relations with mining, its biggest industry.
The 48-year-old Wales-born lawyer took office today after ousting Kevin Rudd, whose slump in opinion polls threatened to make their Labor Party the nation’s first one-term government in 80 years. Rudd stepped down rather than face a party vote.