Profiles of Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition Liberal party leader Tony Abbott are as follows: Julia Gillard Gillard, 48, is Australia's first female prime minister. Her early political career was forged by Labor's left wing, but her ascendancy to prime minister was the result of right-wing powerbrokers in the party. Seen as an economic conservative, she has promised to return the budget to surplus by 2012-13. Arrived in Australia, aged four, in the 1960s from South Wales,...
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