My Story

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Knopf/Random House Australia P/L
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 504 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three days for you to judge. On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australias 27th prime minister, and their first female leader. Australia was alive to the historic possibilities. Here was a new approach for a new time. It was to last three extraordinary years. This is Julia Gillards chronicle of that turbulent time, a strikingly candid self-portrait of a political leader seeking to realize her ideals. It is her story of what it was likein the face of government in-fighting and often hostile mediato manage a hung parliament, build a diverse and robust economy, create an equitable and world-class education system, ensure a dignified future for Australians with disabilities, all while attending to our international obligations and building strategic alliances for our future. This is a politician driven by a sense of purposefrom campus days with the Australian Union of Students, to a career in the law, to her often gritty, occasionally glittering rise up the ranks of the Australian Labor Party. Refreshingly honest, peppered with a wry humor and personal insights, Julia Gillard does not shy away from her mistakes, admitting freely to errors, misjudgements, and policy failures as well as detailing her political successes. Here is an account of what was hidden behind the resilience and dignified courage Gillard showed as prime minister, her view of the vicious hate campaigns directed against her, and a reflection on what it meansand what it takesto be a woman leader in contemporary politics. Here, in her own words, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australias first female prime minister.

ISBN: 9780857983909