Hon Julia Gillard AC

Speeches

Parliamentary service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Lalor, Victoria, 1998. Re-elected 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. Retired prior to general elections 2013.

Ministerial appointments

Committee service

House of Representatives Select: Address in Reply served from 28.9.2010 to 29.9.2010
House of Representatives Standing: Employment, Education and Workplace Relations served from 8.12.1998 to 8.10.2001; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs served from 20.3.2003 to 18.8.2003
Joint Statutory: Public Accounts and Audit served from 8.12.1998 to 8.10.2001; Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund served from 20.3.2003 to 11.8.2003

Conferences, delegations and visits

Official Observer to the general elections, Indonesia, June 1999.
Parliamentary delegation member to New Zealand, June 2001.
Attended official meetings in New Zealand, June 2008.
Attended official meetings in the USA, UK and Singapore from June to July 2008.
Attended official meetings in Switzerland and India from January to February 2009.
Attended official meetings in the USA and Israel, June 2009.
Attended official meetings in India from August to September 2009.
Attended official meetings in the USA, October 2009.
Attended official meetings in Afghanistan, Switzerland and Belgium, October 2010.
Attended official meetings in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia from October to November 2010.
Attended official meetings in Portugal, November 2010.
Attended official meetings in New Zealand, February 2011.
Attended official meetings in the USA and New Zealand, March 2011.
Attended official meetings in Japan, China, South Korea and the UK from April to May 2011.
Attended official meetings in New Zealand, September 2011.
Attended official meetings in France, Indonesia, the USA and United Arab Emirates, November 2011.
Attended official meetings in South Korea, March 2012.
Attended official meetings in Singapore and Turkey, April 2012.
Attended official meetings in the USA, May 2012.
Attended official meetings in Mexico and Brazil, June 2012.

Parliamentary party positions

Australian Labor Party. Served: 03.10.1998 to 05.08.2013
Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration from 25.11.2001 to 2.7.2003.
Shadow Cabinet Minister from 25.11.2001 to 3.12.2007.
Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs from 18.2.2003 to 2.7.2003.
Shadow Minister for Health from 2.7.2003 to 10.12.2006.
Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House from 2.7.2003 to 8.12.2003.
Manager of Opposition Business in the House from 8.12.2003 to 10.12.2006.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 4.12.2006 to 3.12.2007.
Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations from 10.12.2006 to 3.12.2007.
Shadow Minister for Social Inclusion from 10.12.2006 to 3.12.2007.
Deputy Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party from 4.12.2006 to 24.6.2010.
Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party from 24.6.2010 to 26.6.2013.

Party positions

Delegate to the Australian Labor Party State Conference (Vic). .
President of the Australian Labor Party Carlton Branch (Vic.) from 1985 to 1989.
Co-Convener of the Australian Labor Party Affirmative Action Working Party from 1993 to 1994.
Member of the Australian Labor Party Administrative Committee (Vic.) from 1993 to 1997.

Personal

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BA (University of Melbourne).
LLB (University of Melbourne).
Solicitor from 1987 to 1995.
Partner at Law Firm from 1990 to 1995.
Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition, J Brumby, MLA (Vic.) from 1996 to 1998.

Electorate

Name: Lalor
Location: western outskirts of Melbourne; it includes the centres of Brookfield, Diggers Rest, Exford, Eynesbury, Hoppers Crossing, Kurunjang, Laverton, Laverton North, Little River, Mambourin, Melton, Melton South, Melton West, Mt Cottrell, Parwan, Point Cook, Quandong, Rockbank, Tarneit, Toolern Vale, Werribee, Werribee South and Wyndham Vale, and parts of Plumpton and Truganina.
Area: 991 Sq km
Electors enrolled: 117,023 (at 21.8.2010)
Industries: heavy industries, small industries, market gardening, grazing, cropping, thoroughbred horses, tertiary education, Werribee Mercy Hospital, University of Melbourne Veterinary School and Agriculture and Food Technology Precinct.
Includes: Lalor includes the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Tarneit, and parts of Altona, Lara and Melton.

Honours

Publications

My story, Random House Australia, North Sydney, NSW: 2015.
Learning from the Hawke legacy in an age of anxiety, The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Adelaide: 2017.
Women and leadership: real lives, real lessons, Vintage Books, North Sydney, NSW: 2020.
Not now, not ever: ten years on from the misogyny speech, Vintage Australia, Milsons Point, NSW: 2022.