Julia Gillard

Australia’s new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has appointed Julia Gillard as his deputy prime minister who will take the ministerial portfolios of both education and workplace relations in a combined role in a bid to make Australia more competitive by improving educational standards.

Ms Gillard emigrated from Barry at the age of five. She was born in a terraced home in Queen Street on September 29 1961 but now lives in a smart suburb of Victoria Australia.

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