Will Aussies choose to keep their first woman Prime Minister?
In about a month from now, on August 21, Australia’s first ever woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard will find out if the voters of the country also want her in the government’s top spot.
According to a Guardian Weekly story last week, Gillard’s Labor Party has pulled ahead in the national polls (“Julia Gillard calls snap Australian election” by Peter Beaumont, July 18, 2010):
The country’s first female prime minister, Welsh-born Gillard was appointed by the ruling Labor party as the government faced what seemed like certain electoral defeat, and a party coup saw Kevin Rudd ousted. Since then, however, Gillard has been credited with rebuilding support for her party, to an extent that Labor is narrowly ahead in the opinion polls.
Below is a video of Gillard last Saturday announcing her decision to call for the August election:
