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Julia Gillardová je austrálska právnička a politička, bývalá predsedníčka Austrálskej labouristickej strany.

Od 24. júna 2010 do 27. júna 2013 bola predsedníčkou vlády Austrálie. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. september 1961
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“I was very conscience that if you put even your toe on this very sticky piece of paper, then you would be caught on it.”

On her initial decision not to disclose details of her final meeting with Rudd, prior to challenging him for the Labor Party leadership in June 2010.
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)

“I know the Leader of the Opposition [Tony Abbott] has an unhealthy kind of obsession with the so-called "faceless men in the Labor Party"; what he really should be obsessed about is the useless men sitting behind him.”

In Question Time, c. March 2012
"Labor cleans up after aftermath" http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2012/s3445116.htm, in Insiders (ABC), 4 March 2012

“Tactics hadn't gone [Rudd's] way – I had taken a view about something else forming the issue of the day – and after the tactics meeting broke up he very physically stepped into my space, and it was quite a bullying encounter. It was a menacing, angry, performance.”

Gillard recalls a tactics meeting held during the Rudd Opposition years; she was the Manager of Opposition Business in the House at the time.
The Killing Season, Episode one: The Prime Minister and his Loyal Deputy (2006–09)

“I don’t see what alternate reality was possible other than the one’s we lived through. So I think people are really wistfully hoping for something that was never going to be.”

In response to suggestions that Rudd and Gillard were better as a team, as opposed to rivals.
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)

“You've got to gather yourself, you've got to give the speech, go see the Governor-General, do all of that. And then you get to have a few drinks with friends, so that's not that hard.”

Gillard lists the events which followed her loss to Rudd in the June 2013 Labor Party leadership spill
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)

“I really don’t know why this wasn’t a career ending moment for Tony Abbott. Sexism is no better than racism.”

In response to Opposition leader Abbott standing in front of signs labelling Gillard a "witch" and a "bitch".
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)

“Will the misogynists and the nut jobs on the internet continue to circulate them? Yes, they will. And it wouldn't matter what I said and it wouldn't matter what documents were produced and it wouldn't matter what anybody else said, they will pursue this claim for motivations of their own which are malicious and not in any way associated with the facts.”

In a press conference where she addressed accusations of improprierty during her tenure as a Slater & Gordon lawyer
"Prime Minister Gillard responds to accusations" http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3574703.htm, in 7.30 (ABC), 23 August 2012

“I don't think it would have been possible … You always have choices, yes, but I don't think there was any way of stuffing the genie back into the bottle.”

Responding to the claim that she would have been able to call off her leadership challenge against Rudd, following their final meeting on the night of 23 June 2010.
The Killing Season, Episode two: Great Moral Challenge (2009–10)

“Hindsight can give you insights about what went wrong. But only faith, reason and bravery can propel you forward.”

In an op-ed to the Guardian Australia, following the Second Rudd Government's defeat at the 2013 federal election.
"Julia Gillard writes on power, purpose and Labor’s future" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/julia-gillard-labor-purpose-future, in Guardian Australia, 14 September 2013

“It's a cute project to work on.”

Explaining why she was knitting a toy kangaroo for Prince William, Duke of Cambridge's expected baby.
Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013. p. 5