Congratulations to Julia Gillard, new leader of the Australian Labor Party and Australia’s first woman Prime Minister. Welsh pride can also take a boost as Gillard was born in Barry Island, near Cardiff, where she lived until moving to Australia the ripe old age of four. When it comes to furnishing the world with Prime

Julia Gillard becomes Australia's first female prime minister after Kevin Rudd stands aside from a Labor Party leadership ballot.

ANOTHER female Minister walked out on Gordon Brown’s Government yesterday, warning the Prime Minister his determination to cling to power could destroy the Labour Party.

The mechanics of getting rid of this New Labour government are: For the regime to lose a major vote in the Lower House which is confirmed subsequently by a loss of the following vote of confidence. For a resignation as Leader of the Labour party and Prime Minister to be forced from the Prime Minister by his Party. In the first case it is hard to think that a compliant Parliamentary Labour Party wi...

The Labour Party savaged its own leader yesterday, with PM Kevin Rudd resigning in an emotional farewell less than three years after his 2007 election victory as he was ousted in favor of 45-year-old Julia Gillard, who will be Australia's first female prime minister. Gillard is widely credited with engineering her party leader's Rudd's demise. What cut Rudd down was controversy over...

I see that Australia is considering a US request to re-settle inmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp, but is unlikely to take any detainees,  Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today. Gillard said Australia had been approached along with Britain to accept inmates to help US President-elect Barack Obama meet a promise to close the camp in a US enclave on Cuba. But Australia...

Once when your prime minister told you something, especially when backed by figures or statements from our impartial civil and public services you'd believe him/her. Those days we're doomed to end from May 1997 onwards. New Labour - the party that won power through the dark arts of media manipulation, stories, media grids and its smear campaign ( remember sleaze ). Labour held power thou...

During a ceremony to mark the country’s annual Australia Day celebration in Canberra, Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was forced to flee the event surrounded by police and bodyguards after being besieged by angry protesters demanding aboriginal rights. Supporters of aboriginal rights in Australia refer to the annual event marking Australia’s creation as ‘Invasian Day...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on 10 May he would step aside this year, sacrificing himself to try to give his Labour Party a chance of forming a government with the smaller Liberal Democrats.

With neither Labour nor the National Party expected to storm elections in Australia, the Maori Party hold the balance of power I don’t think that Australian elections include a Labour or a National party, do they? And certainly not enough Maoris to make a difference….