At the time, Gillard justified the ousting of a sitting prime minister by saying “a good government had lost its way.” But the removal of Rudd left a stunned nation deeply skeptical of its new ...

PM Julia Gillard was unopposed as a leadership content was held. Several members of her government resign 24 hours later . Gillard was expected to face a challenge from the man she ousted as PM ...

But others warned that the Gillard government's problems – particularly the fact it appears to have no chance of winning an election due by late next year – will not go away.

Gillard’s government-imposed welfare “reforms” that moved thousands of single mothers off parenting payments and onto the dole, cutting their payments by $60 to $100 week.

Regardless of whoever wins Australia's next election, the big spending Rudd days are over and austerity is in. Labor or Liberal, Gillard or Abbott; government IT bosses will have to get the knives ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labour Party (ALP)-dominated coalition Government of Australia has clung to power without an express public mandate since the August 21, 2010, House of ...

His government successfully sandbagged key marginal seats. The Labor government elected in 2007 under Kevin Rudd's leadership almost lost the 2010 election after Julia Gillard took over.

Tanya Plibersek was health minister in the Gillard government. (AAP: Penny Bradfield) "Julia got up, delivered this speech and it completely changed the way the parliament felt.