Julia Gillard Net Worth – Financial Status and Political Career

Julia Gillard is a former politician who was the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She began serving in the Australian Parliament in 1998 and served as the leader of the Labor Party and Member of Parliament for Lalor's Victorian division from 1998 until 2013.

In the 2007 federal election, Gillard was elected as Australia's first female deputy prime minister. After her retirement, Gillard has been chair of the Global Partnership for Education since 2014 and a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide. Political analysts generally rank her among Australia's middle-to-upper-tier prime ministers.

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Julia Gillard Net Worth

Julia Gillard net worth is estimated to be $2 million. Political career revenues, post-political commitments, and investments contributed in Julia Gillard net worth. This estimate includes her investments, and. She has served in a variety of roles and become involved with a large number of non-profit organizations after leaving politics.

Julia Gillard Bio/Personal life

From 1988 until 1995, Gillard was employed in the industrial division of Slater & Gordon. In the early 1990s, she was dating Bruce Wilson, an Australian Workers' Union official.

Gillard started dating Tim Mathieson in 2006 after they first met in 2004. The couple broke up in 2020 or 2021. According to Gillard's mother, Gillard had stated from an early age that she did not want children. She has never been married and has no children.

Julia Gillard Early Life

Julia Gillard birth date is September 29, 1961, and her birthplace is Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Her parents believed it would be better in a warmer country because she experienced bronchopneumonia as a child. The family arrived in Adelaide, Australia, in 1966. In 1974, she obtained Australian citizenship.

Gillard went to Unley High School after attending Mitcham Demonstration School. She started her arts studies at the University of Adelaide, where she served as the Adelaide University Union's president from 1981 to 1982. She became the second female leader of the Australian Union of Students in 1983 and held that position until the organization's closure in 1984.

She earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1986. From 1985 to 1989, she was head of the Labor Party's Carlton branch. At the 1996 federal election, she placed third on Labor's Senate ticket in Victoria.

Political Career

• Parliament

In the 1998 election, Gillard defeated Barry Jones to become the Member for Lalor in the House of Representatives. After the 2001 election, she was voted to the shadow cabinet, where she was assigned to manage immigration and population. In July 2003, she was appointed to the role of Shadow Health Minister. Tony Abbott was appointed Health Minister shortly after this. The media was frequently interested in Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard's contest.

• Deputy Prime Minister

The Labor Party won the 2007 federal election. When she took the oath of office on December 3, 2007, Gillard became Australia's first female deputy prime minister. She also held the positions of Social Inclusion, Employment and Workplace Relations, and Education Minister.

The government's "Building the Education Revolution" program, which Gillard oversaw in 2009, provided AU$16 billion to construct new classrooms, libraries, and assembly halls.

• Prime Minister

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's personal ratings dropped, and his own MPs seemed to be less supportive of him. Shortly after, Governor-General Quentin Bryce swore in Gillard as Australia's 27th prime minister and Swan as deputy prime minister. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a conference:

“The Rudd administration went off the tracks at times, and I began to believe that a good government was disappearing.”

When Rudd quit as Foreign Minister in February 2012, he declared he would run against her for Labor Party leadership. Gillard requested a new leadership vote at a party meeting on February 27, 2012. She won the position of leader with 71 votes to Rudd's 31.

Gillard declared a leadership spill on June 26, 2013. Kevin Rudd announced his candidacy. Gillard lost to Rudd by a margin of 57 to 45. After the results, a number of ministers, including Wayne Swan, Peter Garrett, Greg Combet, Joe Ludwig, Craig Emerson, and Stephen Conroy, resigned from their roles.

Achievements

In 2013, Julia Gillard book deal was confirmed with Penguin Australia for her memoirs. Books about Julia Gillard, My Story, was published in 2014. Another book, “Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons,” was released in 2020.

In October, the University of Canberra awarded her an honorary doctorate in recognition of her contributions to education and gender equality. In 2016, she inaugurated the Julia Gillard Library in the Tarneit area of Melbourne.

The Wyndham City Council chose the Julia Gillard library's name to honor her services as the local prime minister and Member of Parliament. In April 2021, the Japanese government awarded her the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun as an expression of appreciation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q. When did Julia Gillard get married?

Gillard has never been married.

Q. What is Julia Gillard doing now?

She is currently the first Chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, which uses advocacy, practice, and research to address women's underrepresentation in leadership.

Q. What was Julia's popular speech?

 Prime Minister Julia Gillard of the Australian Labor Party responded to allegations of sexism from opposition leader Tony Abbott on October 9, 2012, in a parliamentary address known as "The Misogyny Speech."