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...From June 14; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Julia’, Southbank Theatre A theatrical portrait of Julia Gillard, the Welsh-born Labor politician who became Australia’s first female prime...
...Robin Williams, a Mining and Energy Union leader and a Labor supporter, says he believes both Labor and the coalition would support new coal mines....
...She is elected unopposed and becomes prime minister 2012 Rudd resigns from cabinet and challenges Gillard to a leadership vote, but loses the ballot 2013 Rudd ousts Gillard as leader in another vote,...
...It is little wonder that international bookmakers, including market leaders Bet365, Paddy Power and William Hill, have flocked to set up shop Down Under ....
...“He refuses to kill off funding for this bizarre religious chaplaincy scheme,” says Mr Williams....
...“He [Abbott] is more of a man and less of a politician,” said William Gallimore, who added he voted for Mr Glasson....
...The star power of younger royals in William, Kate and Harry seems to be bolstering the monarchists in Australia....
...Ms Gillard has also been accused of breaking promises to voters, in particular over Australia’s carbon tax....
...“It’s a classic black market,” says William Maley, a professor of diplomacy at the Australian National University and a member of the Refugee Council of Australia, a campaign group....
...Julia Gillard, Australia’s prime minister, sees the new reforms as “simple and very rational”. That is the problem....
...Meanwhile Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard vowed that Australia would ‘’stand by’’ Japan in its hour of need....
...“I think Prince William has his mother’s traits. He is very easy with people and very like her.”...
...But Ms Gillard’s government still faces a battle to pass the tax into law....
...First past the post is Tennessee Williams, directed by fellow American Lee Breuer of avant-garde New York group Mabou Mines....
...All this should provide an excellent diplomatic opening for William Hague, Britain’s new foreign secretary, whose wife Ffion is, naturally, Welsh....
...Ms Gillard is, oddly, the world’s first Welsh-born prime minister – David Lloyd George having been born in Manchester, while William Morris “Billy” Hughes, who became Australia’s leader in 1915, was born...
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