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87-670: The Climate Commission was announced by the Gillard Labor government in February 2011. The chief commissioner was Professor Tim Flannery , and other commissioners included Professor Veena Sahajwalla , Professor Lesley Hughes, Professor Will Steffen , Roger Beale , and Gerry Hueston. The commission was projected to cost $ 5.4 million over four years. The Commission released a number of reports on climate change science, health impacts, international action and renewable energy, as well as holding public events around Australia. The Critical Decade ,

174-606: A hung Parliament in which Gillard secured the support of the Australian Greens and three independents to form a government. Leadership challenges occurred intermittently between Gillard and Rudd resulting in Labor leadership spills in February 2012 , March 2013 and June 2013 , the last of which ended her prime ministership. Major policy initiatives of the Gillard government included,

261-594: A tax on mining , the failure of the government to secure passage of its Carbon Trading Scheme, and debate about immigration policy, significant disaffection had arisen within the Labor Party as to the leadership style and direction of Kevin Rudd. According to the ABC's 7:30 Report, the seeds for a push for Julia Gillard to challenge Rudd came from "Victorian Right factional heavyweights" Bill Shorten and Senator David Feeney , who secured

348-522: A 76–74 minority government. Governor-General Bryce swore in the second Gillard Ministry on 14 September 2010. Following the August 2010 election , Julia Gillard signed a formal agreement with the Australian Greens and secured the support of three independents in relation to confidence and supply within the Australian House of Representatives , thus enabling the Gillard government to return to office as

435-507: A Labor MP until late April 2012. Presiding secretary of the HSU, Kathy Jackson , said in February 2012 that as the investigation had taken four years, she suspected the government had intervened to stall the inquiry. A by-election caused by a conviction of a member of parliament could result in the minority Gillard government losing its majority. When FWA handed down a report on the HSU alleging 181 breaches (including 76 criminal breaches) related to

522-428: A New South Wales Police investigation was investigating broader allegations of fraud involving Thomson and former HSU boss Michael Williamson. Thomson was arrested on 1 February 2013, and charged with 150 counts of fraud. He was found guilty of obtaining financial advantage by using his Health Services Union (HSU) credit card to pay for sexual services and making cash withdrawals on 18 February 2014. In September 2012,

609-463: A by-election – a move which could cost Labor government. At Labor's 2011 conference in Sydney, Prime Minister Gillard mentioned every Labor Prime Minister since World War Two with the exception of Kevin Rudd. The speech was widely reported as a "snub" to Rudd. Amdist ongoing poor two-party preferred polling results for the government, and following the loss of Independent MP Andrew Wilkie 's support on

696-410: A carbon tax; her East Timor and Malaysia Solution plans for asylum seekers; her written agreement with Andrew Wilkie on poker reforms and twelve months of low polling as key failings of Gillard's time in office. David Gonski David Michael Gonski AC (born 7 October 1953) is an Australian public figure and businessman. In 2008, The Sydney Morning Herald described Gonski as "one of

783-476: A cessation of his weekly meetings with the Prime Minister following a dispute over her handling of Tasmanian forestry. New South Wales country independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor and Tasmania independent Andrew Wilkie also reached agreement with Gillard. Oakeshott and Windsor, both estranged former members of the conservative National Party announced their support in a joint conference. Windsor cited

870-449: A female member of the opposition. Gillard's Attorney General, Nicola Roxon , was briefed on the texts in June, but publicly maintained that the sexual harassment claims were vexatious. On 9 October Tony Abbott rose in parliament with a motion to have Slipper removed as Speaker over the sexist comments. Gillard refused to back the move and proceeded to link Abbott's remarks to those made in

957-521: A fixed price period operating as a tax. Prior to the election, Gillard had ruled out the introduction of a carbon tax while promising to put a price on carbon. This apparent breach of an election commitment proved to be one of the most controversial policy decisions of the government thus far announced. The plan secured its passage through Parliament in late 2011 as part of the Clean Energy Bill 2011 . In January 2012, Greens leader Bob Brown announced

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1044-507: A key commitment to him regarding poker-machine reform saw Wilkie withdraw his guarantees on confidence and supply in January 2012. In November 2011, the Gillard government had its Speaker Harry Jenkins resign and installed Liberal-National defector Peter Slipper in the Chair. The manoeuvre was described as "a big win for Gillard" for boosting her numbers on the floor and on 21 January, the government

1131-400: A leadership change "because I believed that a good government was losing its way" and that Labor was at risk at the next election. She assured the public that her government would restore the budget to surplus in 2013 and said that it would build community consensus for a price on carbon and open negotiations with the mining industry for a re-vamped mining profits tax. She praised Kevin Rudd as

1218-501: A less "stage-managed" campaign, saying: "I think it's time for me to make sure that the real Julia is well and truly on display, so I'm going to step up and take personal charge of what we do in the campaign from this point": Gillard met Opposition leader Tony Abbott for one official debate during the campaign. Studio audience surveys by Channel 9 and the Seven Network suggested a win to Gillard. Unable to agree on further debates,

1305-555: A man of "remarkable achievement" and Wayne Swan as an outstanding Treasurer who would guide Australia to surplus. In the aftermath of the leadership challenge, Bill Shorten , former trade union leader, and key Parliamentary member of the ALP Right Faction, nominated the government's handling of the insulation program ; the sudden announcement of change of policy on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme ; and

1392-542: A minority government. Key to the arrangement was the ongoing support of four non-Labor members of the House of Representatives. The Labor-Greens agreement resulted in the Greens offering to "ensure supply and oppose any motions of no-confidence in the government from other parties or MPs" in return for a range of policy undertakings from Gillard and an agreement to allow Greens leader Bob Brown and lower house MP Adam Bandt to meet with

1479-449: A period and calculates the likelihood of a particular temperature rise. For example, to have a 75% change of keeping temperature increase to below 2 degrees, the world can emit no more than 1000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide between 2000 and 2050. The report was reviewed favourably by leading Australian climate scientists, including Professor David Karoly , Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Professor Steven Sherwood. The Climate Commission

1566-405: A period of "paralysis" and that Rudd was operating along "difficult and chaotic work patterns". In their initial responses to the announcement, senior ministers launched stinging attacks on Rudd's legacy as Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan lambasted Rudd as "dysfunctional"; cabinet colleague Tony Burke said of Rudd's term in office that "the stories that were around of the chaos, of

1653-432: A reporter on the night of the challenge if indeed a challenge was on, replied: "Complete garbage. ABC have lost all credibility." As he was being deposed, Rudd suggested that his opponents wanted to move Labor to the right, saying on 23 June: " This party and government will not be lurching to the right on the question of asylum seekers, as some have counselled us to do." Upon becoming leader, Gillard explained her actions on

1740-491: A speech using the slogan "moving forward". In the early stages of the campaign, a series of leaks were released by purported Labor Party sources, indicating apparent divisions within Cabinet over the replacement of Kevin Rudd by Gillard. Midway through the campaign, Gillard offered journalists a self-assessment of her campaign by saying that she had been paying too much attention to advisers in her strategy team, and she wanted to run

1827-605: Is a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley Australia Limited; chairman of the advisory board of Transfield Holdings (the private holding company of Transfield Services ); and is a non-executive director of Singapore Airlines . His previous roles have included non-executive director of John Fairfax Holdings (between 1993 and 2005); ANZ Bank (between 2001 and 2007); Westfield Group (between 1985 and 2011); Consolidated Press ; non-executive director and chair of Coca-Cola Amatil (1997 to 2017; and ING Australia . However, not all Gonski's efforts have yielded strong results. During

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1914-627: The Australian Labor Party would occur on the morning of 24 June 2010, with the candidates being himself and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard . This followed weeks of speculation that senior members of the ALP were beginning to lose confidence in Rudd and would back Gillard in replacing him if necessary. By the eve of the election, it was obvious that Rudd didn't have enough support to remain ALP leader and prime minister. Rudd withdrew his candidacy and resigned as party leader, leaving Gillard to take

2001-576: The Clean Energy Bill 2011 , asylum seeker policy, Mineral Resource Rent Tax , National Broadband Network , schools funding following the Gonski Review and the National Disability Insurance Scheme . Management of the Labor Party's alliances with the Greens and Independents were an ongoing issue following the 2010 election. In late 2011, the government secured the defection of a Liberal member Peter Slipper to serve as Speaker of

2088-637: The Hawke-Keating government , and replaced them with the Fair Work Bill . The bill established a single industrial relations bureaucracy called Fair Work Australia (FWA), in addition to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), and both became operational on 1 July 2009. In 2009, Gillard oversaw the government's " Building the Education Revolution " programme that allocated $ 16 billion towards

2175-762: The New South Wales Government . He is a member of the nomination panel for appointments to the boards of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Special Broadcasting Service and is patron of Raise Foundation and the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation . Amidst some controversy, Gonski succeeded David Murray as independent non-executive chairman of the Australian Government Future Fund on 3 April 2012. During 2011, Gonski

2262-519: The University of New South Wales , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1976 and a Bachelor of Laws degree (with the University Medal) in 1977. Gonski practised as a solicitor with the firm of Freehills from 1977 to 1986, becoming their youngest ever partner at age 25, before leaving to co-found an investment bank. While at Freehills, he taught intellectual property law for

2349-591: The leadership of the Australian Labor Party on 26 June 2013 and commenced the second Rudd government . Before mounting her successful 2010 challenge to Rudd's leadership, Gillard had served as Deputy Prime Minister in the first Rudd government. With Treasurer Wayne Swan as her Deputy, Gillard went on to lead her party to the 2010 Australian federal election against the Liberal-National Coalition led by Tony Abbott . The election resulted in

2436-511: The 2013 Federal Election, but was found guilty on multiple counts. Thomson was already under investigation at the time of the 2010 Election. Under questioning from the Opposition, Gillard told Parliament on 16 August 2011, "I think he is doing a fine job representing the people of his constituency in this place... I look forward to him continuing to do that job for a very long, long, long time to come." Gillard maintained her support for Thomson as

2523-760: The Australian Capital Territory. On 30 October 2023, Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers appointed Gonski to the Competition Taskforce Advisory Panel, which has been established to advise the Treasury on national competition policy. In 1999, Gonski was appointed as a director to the UNSW Foundation. He became chancellor of the University of New South Wales and a member of the council of the university in 2005 and in 2007 became chair of

2610-647: The Commonwealth, as first respondent in the Slipper case, agreed a settlement with Peter Slipper's staffer whereby it would pay $ 50,000 and improve training in relation to sexual harassment. However, the Attorney General, Nicola Roxon, repeated her claim that Slipper's staffer did not have a case. However, the case lead to release of communications used in evidence including lewd text messages sent by Slipper. The texts included denigratory remarks about female body parts and

2697-663: The Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He established a corporate advisory firm, Wentworth Associates Pty Ltd, which was acquired by Investec Bank in March 2001. Gonski's business background is extensive, and it is estimated that he sits on more than 40 boards. Current prominent positions held in business include chairman, independent non-executive director of ANZ Bank; Barrenjoey Capital Partners ; Ingeus Limited; Swiss Re Life and Health Australia Limited; ASX Limited (since 2008); and Investec Bank (Australia) Limited. He

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2784-405: The Greens was one of the worst strategic decisions in the past 50 years of Labor history". In February 2013, Greens leader Christine Milne announced that, while her party would continue to guarantee confidence and supply, the Greens would be ending their alliance with Labor, on the basis that the government was not taxing "big miners" enough via its MRRT mining tax. The government's numbers in

2871-619: The House of Representatives . Slipper resigned as speaker in October. In early 2012 the government lost the support of independent Andrew Wilkie . In May 2012 it suspended backbencher Craig Thomson from the ALP as evidence mounted that he had defrauded the Health Services Union . The Greens ended their formal alliance with Labor in February 2013 over taxation policy, but continued to offer confidence and supply. Gillard became deputy leader of

2958-458: The House of Representatives and would be supporting Rudd because he believed the manner in which he had been replaced in 2010 was wrong. Prime Minister Gillard refused to accept Albanese's resignation. Gillard portrayed Rudd as a "chaotic" manager and would-be celebrity who led a "paralysed" government. Rudd portrayed Gillard as untrustworthy and unable to win an election. Rudd nominated Gillard's actions in relation to her promise not to implement

3045-569: The House of Representatives were affected by the resignation of Peter Slipper from the Liberal National Party in order that he could serve as a Labor aligned independent and as Speaker of the House of Representatives; as well as by the eventual suspension of Labor back bencher Craig Thomson from the ALP, who was long the subject of allegations of fraudulent conduct during the Health Services Union expenses affair . Slipper ultimately resigned as Speaker for inappropriate conduct and returned to

3132-638: The Labor Party's National Broadband Scheme as "critical" to securing his support along with "stability" in government. For his part Oakeshott described his decision as "line ball" and announced that he had secured an undertaking for a "taxation summit" and that Labor's broadband and climate change policies appealed to him. During negotiations, a third ex-National rural MP, Bob Katter , had operated closely with Oakeshott and Windsor, however his support fell behind Tony Abbott, as did West Australian National Tony Crook . Andrew Wilkie also initially backed Julia Gillard as prime minister; however, her subsequent breaking of

3219-530: The Labor opposition during the final term of the Howard Coalition government in December 2006. The appointment came after a challenge to the leadership of Kim Beazley by Kevin Rudd . Rudd and Gillard defeated Beazley and his deputy Jenny Macklin in a caucus vote for the party leadership. The Rudd-Gillard ticket then defeated the long-serving Howard government at the 2007 election . The first Rudd Ministry

3306-536: The Liberal-National Coalition. After FWA's findings against Thomson were made public (alleging that he had misused $ 500,000 in union funds to purchase prostitution services, as well as to aid his political campaign for Parliament and for personal cash withdrawals) the MP addressed Parliament from the crossbenches, and in an emotional speech in May 2012, claimed to be the victim of a conspiracy perpetrated by former colleagues and accused

3393-646: The Liberal-National opposition, and some controversial policy decisions by Julia Gillard contributed to an environment in which leadership tensions within the Labor Party were to remain a major issue. As late as May 2010, prior to challenging Rudd, Julia Gillard was quipping to the media that "There's more chance of me becoming the full forward for the Dogs than there is of any change in the Labor Party". Consequently, Gillard's move against Rudd on 23 June appeared to surprise many Labor backbenchers. Daryl Melham when asked by

3480-433: The Opposition and Crossbenchers for Slipper to step aside for the duration of any civil investigations. On 29 April, Gillard announced that she wanted to dispel a "dark cloud" hanging over Parliament and wanted Labor MP Craig Thompson to suspend his membership of the Labor Party and for Speaker Slipper to maintain his suspension from the role of Speaker until all the completion of investigations. Labor MP Anna Burke took up

3567-433: The Prime Minister each week while Parliament is sitting to work on the legislative agenda. Among the policy undertakings announced by the parties was the abandonment of the Gillard government's plan for a "citizens assembly" to discuss climate change policy and its replacement with a "climate change committee" to consider a price on carbon. That committee, chaired by Gillard, announced a carbon pricing scheme that would include

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3654-571: The UNSW Foundation. Gonski is the first alumnus of the University of New South Wales to hold the position of chancellor at that university. He is chairman of the National e-Health Transition Authority, a statutory authority of the Australian government ; and chair of the Sydney Theatre Company (since February 2010). Gonski is a non-executive director of Infrastructure NSW , an agency of

3741-435: The aftermath of these programs which, saw Labor MP Darren Cheeseman call on Gillard to resign, while his colleague Steve Gibbons called Rudd a "psychopath with a giant ego". Amidst the controversy, an expletive laden video of out-takes of an intemperate Kevin Rudd attempting to record a Chinese language message during his time as prime minister was released anonymously on YouTube, apparently aimed at discrediting his push for

3828-546: The arts and for charitable organisations. He received the Centenary Medal in 2003. In 2007 Gonski was invested as a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for service to the arts through charitable support and the development of policy initiatives, to business and commerce as a company director, to education, and to the community through a range of philanthropic endeavours. At the University of New South Wales, Law Theatre G02

3915-404: The backbench over the past month on the level of support for him. This followed a Herald/Nielsen poll which showed the government would lose if an election were held then" and that "Rudd's action was regarded as a sign that he did not trust the repeated assurances by Ms Gillard that she would not stand". On 23 June 2010, Kevin Rudd called a press conference announcing that a leadership ballot of

4002-460: The basis that she believed that the Labor government had "lost its way", but did nominate asylum seeker policy, along with carbon pricing and the mining tax as priorities of her agenda. Leadership tensions were a feature of Labor's 2010 election campaign, with a series of damaging leaks apparently emanating from people connected to the Rudd government 's inner Cabinet circle. Following the election, Rudd

4089-652: The boards of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney ; the Bundanon Trust ; Philanthropy Australia; and the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce; and other non-profit entities. In April 2010, Gonski was commissioned by Julia Gillard , then Minister for Education in the Rudd Government , to be chairman of a committee to make recommendations regarding funding of education in Australia. The findings and recommendations of

4176-408: The building of new school accommodation, such as classrooms, libraries and assembly halls. The programme was part of the government's economic stimulus response to the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its expense became controversial. After an initial period of popularity, by mid-2009, following the failure of the government's insulation program and amidst controversy regarding the implementation of

4263-408: The catalyst for his resignation. Prime Minister Gillard called a leadership ballot for 27 February. In doing so, she attempted to see off a "two-stage" strategy by declaring she would return to the backbenches and renounce any future leadership bid, and asking Rudd to do the same. She also expanded upon the reasons for her original challenge of Rudd's leadership, saying that his government had entered

4350-409: The commission's first report, summarised the current state of climate science, the likely impacts and the urgency for action. The report found: The third and final chapter of the report uses a budget approach to estimate the level of greenhouse gas emissions reductions required to keep global temperature below 2 degrees. The budget approach looks at the amount of additional greenhouse gas emissions over

4437-513: The committee were presented to the government in November 2011, whereafter deliberations were entered into by the federal and state governments to consider its content. The committee's report is known as the Gonski Report . Subsequently, the proposed reforms (an increase in funding) became known as "Gonski" and supporters urged governments to "Give a Gonski". The report was removed from the website by

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4524-557: The country's best-connected businessmen" and dubbed him "Mr Networks" for being "arguably Sydney's most networked man". A profile in 2010 by Australian author and Herald columnist Malcolm Knox said that Gonski is "a quiet man, in some ways invisible, and cleaves to the shadows." Gonski was born in Cape Town , South Africa, and his family migrated to Australia in 1961 in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre . Gonski's father, Alexander,

4611-424: The cross bench, while police investigations were ongoing in relation to Thomson. Extensive allegations were brought before Fair Work Australia (FWA), concerning mis-use of union funds during his time as a leader of the Labor affiliated Health Services Union (HSU), prior to his entry to Parliament. Thomson pleaded not guilty to 145 charges of theft and deception relating to the alleged misuse of Union funds following

4698-485: The duties of Speaker. The development left Labor with 70 seats on the floor of the House of Representatives, to the Liberals 71 – with two independents aligned to Liberal-National Coalition; Andrew Wilkie acting as a non-aligned independent; and with Slipper, Thompson, a Green and two further independents remaining Labor aligned. Soon after, West Australian National , Tony Crook announced that he would sitting and voting with

4785-451: The first hung parliament since the 1940 election . Both major party leaders sought to form a minority government . Six crossbench MPs held the balance of power . Four crossbench MPs, Greens Adam Bandt and independents Andrew Wilkie , Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply , in return for some legislative concessions, allowing Gillard and Labor to remain in power with

4872-782: The floor of the Parliament, and an Australia Day security scare in which Gillard's office had been implicated in "tipping off" a rowdy protest emanating from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, senior Labor figures were openly discussing the question of Rudd's desire to lead the party in the media. Simon Crean told radio 3AW: "[Rudd] can't be leader again... People will not elect as leaders those they don't perceive as team players". Treasurer Swan told ABC TV in February that "Sure, there's one or two individuals out there who are disgruntled, they are feeding some of these stories" but that

4959-399: The focus of the news story with "an impressive set of insults". Within a week, a YouTube version of the speech had had one million hits. The context of the Labor Party's support for Peter Slipper however meant that commentary from domestic journalists was far more critical, with Michelle Grattan writing "it sounded more desperate than convincing", Peter Harthcer that Gillard "chose to defend

5046-408: The government, initially as a backbencher. Following the 2010 election, Gillard appointed Rudd as foreign minister in her minority government. The unusual circumstances of Rudd's replacement by his own party prior to completion of his first term in office, the subsequent circumstances of Labor operating without an outright Parliamentary majority, persistent two-party-preferred polling results favouring

5133-537: The incoming government after the 2013 federal election and is preserved by Australia's Pandora Archive . In 2017, Gonski chaired an independent panel, the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools, commissioned to examine evidence and make recommendations on how school funding should be used to improve school performance and student outcomes. The second Gonski report, referred to as Gonski 2.0,

5220-399: The indefensible" and Peter van Onselen that the government had "egg on their collective faces". The public reaction was also polarised: approval ratings of Gillard and Abbott both improved following the speech. Julia Gillard mounted a leadership challenge against Kevin Rudd as leader of the Australian Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia in June 2010. Rudd remained within

5307-646: The leaders went on to appear separately on stage for questioning at community forums in Sydney and Brisbane. An audience exit poll of the Rooty Hill RSL audience indicated an Abbott victory. Gillard won the audience poll at the Broncos Leagues Club meeting in Brisbane on 18 August. Gillard also appeared on the ABC's Q&A program on 9 August. On 7 August, Gillard was questioned by former Labor leader turned Channel Nine reporter Mark Latham . Labor's campaign

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5394-606: The leadership of the ALP prior to her challenge to Rudd in 2010. A day later ABC TV's 7:30 revealed that the Unionist sent by Gillard's media office to advise Aboriginal Tent Embassy protesters of Abbott's location prior to the Australia Day security scare had both misrepresented Abbott's own remarks regarding the Tent Embassy and repeatedly denied she had done so in subsequent interviews. A breakdown in party discipline followed in

5481-476: The leadership unopposed. Gillard was then sworn in as Australia's 27th prime minister by Governor-general Quentin Bryce and became Australia's first female prime minister on 24 June 2010, with Treasurer Wayne Swan being appointed deputy prime minister. In her first press conference as Labor Leader on 23 June, Gillard said that after three and a half years of "most loyal service", she had asked her colleagues to make

5568-486: The leadership. While Rudd said publicly only that he was "happy as foreign minister", media commentators widely declared that a leadership challenge was "on" and Independent MP Andrew Wilkie told journalists that Rudd had met with him in November and discussed the leadership issue. Rudd announced his resignation as foreign minister on 22 February, citing a lack of support from Julia Gillard and character attacks launched by Simon Crean and "a number of other faceless men" as

5655-427: The majority of caucus supported Gillard. The Greens leader Bob Brown also continued to support Gillard, telling journalists in February that ongoing criticism of her was "sexist and unfair". Gillard's appearance on ABCTV's Four Corners in mid-February ignited a further storm of leadership speculation in the Labor Party and the national media, and cast doubt on Gillard's insistence that she had not actively sought

5742-401: The media and opposition of seeking to "deny him his right to the presumption of innocence " and called Tony Abbott "unfit" to sit in Parliament for having pursued the matter. Fair Work Australia launched civil action against Thompson in October 2012, alleging misuse of funds and breaches of workplace laws. A Victorian Police investigation was ongoing regarding misuse of funds by Thomson, while

5829-539: The mid-1980s on Gonski's advice, Frank Lowy established Westfield Capital Corporation with Gonski as an advisor. WCC invested in the predecessor of Ten Network Holdings that eventually resulted in Westfield losing several hundred million dollars. In August 2022, Gonski was appointed Chair of new retirement living provider Levande by EQT Infrastructure, following the acquisition of Stockland Group's 58 villages across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and

5916-567: The opposition leader Tony Abbott called on Gillard to expel Thompson from her government and for the Australian Federal Police to raid FWA's offices to be able to use the contents of the report for a brief of evidence. Civil and criminal allegations were made against Speaker Slipper in April 2012 and he announced an intention to step aside pending conclusion of the criminal investigation. The Gillard government initially resisted calls from

6003-460: The past and present Labor leaders as they discussed campaign tactics". Gillard officially "launched" Labor's campaign in Brisbane five days before polling day, outlining Labor policies and using the slogan: "Yes we will move forward together". Labor and the Coalition each won 72 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives , four short of the requirement for majority government , resulting in

6090-487: The recent Alan Jones shame controversy and said that "every day in every way" Abbott was sexist and misogynist. The Australian Greens and two independents combined to block the motion for Slipper's removal, however later that day, Peter Slipper resigned from his position of his own accord. Slipper returned to the crossbench and soon after was appointed to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade committee. The speech

6177-481: The size of a pension rise". Kevin Rudd and outgoing federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner denied responsibility for the leaks. On 7 August, in the first reported face-to-face meeting of the pair since the leadership change, Gillard and Rudd appeared together in Brisbane with senior campaign advisers including John Faulkner , to discuss Rudd's role in the last two weeks of the campaign. The Australian newspaper reported: "The brief footage showed no eye contact between

6264-491: The support of "New South Wales right power broker" Mark Arbib . Feeney and Arbib went to discuss the matter of leadership challenge with Gillard on the morning of 23 June and a final numbers count began for a leadership challenge. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 24 June that the final catalyst for this move was "sparked by a report in [the Herald of 23 June] that Mr Rudd had used his chief of staff, Alister Jordan, to sound out

6351-783: The temperament, of the inability to have decisions made, they are not stories"; Nicola Roxon declared she could not work with Rudd again; Stephen Conroy said that Rudd had had "contempt" for his colleagues, the Parliament and the public. Ministers Tanya Plibersek and Stephen Smith were more circumspect, but supported Gillard. Labor Senator Doug Cameron and Immigration Minister Chris Bowen came out in support of Rudd and called on their colleagues to show him respect. Labor Ministers Robert McClelland and Martin Ferguson also declared for Rudd, saying Gillard could not win against Tony Abbott . In an emotional address, Minister Anthony Albanese announced that he had offered his resignation as Leader of

6438-609: The union's finances to the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in early April 2012, the DPP announced that it could not investigate the breaches because FWA had not provided a "Brief of Evidence". The Australian Council of Trade Unions suspended the HSU. Kathy Jackson said that it appeared that the FWA was trying to protect Thomson and the government. Gillard repeated her confidence in Thompson, while

6525-579: The way in which they had "introduced the debate" about the Resource Super Profits Tax as the key considerations which had led to a shift in support from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard as leader of the party. On 17 July 2010, 23 days after becoming prime minister and after receiving the agreement of the Governor-General Quentin Bryce , Gillard announced the next federal election for 21 August 2010. Gillard began campaigning with

6612-447: Was a neurosurgeon of Polish background and a founding member of The Coast Golf Club at Little Bay, New South Wales . His mother is Helene Blume. In a 2010 interview, Gonski recalls that one of his earliest recollections was his mother buying a lithograph by Australian artist, Charles Blackman ; commenting that "there's no doubt that my love for Australian art came from her." Gonski is Jewish . He attended Sydney Grammar School and

6699-518: Was able to announce that it would not be proceeding with controversial poker machine reform promised by Gillard to independent Andrew Wilkie . In mid-2012, dissent within the ALP organisation over the ALP-Greens coalition become public, with moves by party officials to change election preferencing arrangements with the Greens. Veteran political journalist Paul Kelly described the debate within Labor as "belated recognition that Gillard's 2010 deal with

6786-572: Was abolished in September 2013 by the newly elected Abbott Liberal government , as a stated streamlining and cost-cutting measure. Less than a week later the commission was relaunched as an independent non-profit organisation called the Climate Council , which was to be fully funded by public donations. Gillard government Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister of Australia [REDACTED] The Gillard government

6873-807: Was also a member of the committee appointed in 1998 to conduct an Inquiry into the Major Performing Arts Sector. Gonski's previous positions held include chair of the Australia Council for the Arts (between 2002 and 2006); president of the board of trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (since 1997); chair of the National Institute of Dramatic Art ; chair of the board of trustees of Sydney Grammar School (between 2003 and 2010); chair of Film Australia . At various times he has served on

6960-698: Was chair of the expert advisory panel of the Commonwealth Government's Review of the Funding of Schools in Australia, which the media commonly refers to as "the Gonski review". He has also served on the Takeovers Panel , an advisory body for the Commonwealth government. During 1996 and 1997, Gonski undertook a Review of Commonwealth Assistance to the Film Industry, presenting his report of that review in 1997. He

7047-449: Was criticised by some professional Australian journalists but attracted widespread interest and much positive attention in blogs and social media. Expat Chloe Angyal wrote for Britain's The Guardian that the speech tackled "sexism head-on" and was a "masterful, righteous take-down" and similar opinions were expressed by other expatriate Australian journalists. Britain's Daily Telegraph women's editor said that Gillard had cleverly shifted

7134-456: Was damaged by a series of leaks apparently emanating from a person or persons connected to the Rudd government 's inner Cabinet circle. On 15 July, at her National Press Club address, Gillard was quizzed by Channel Nine journalist Laurie Oakes on details of her discussions with Rudd during her leadership challenge. Subsequently, it was reported that government sources said that Gillard "argued in cabinet against paid parental leave and questioned

7221-419: Was published on 30 April 2018. Gonski was a close friend and advisor to the late media baron Kerry Packer . Together with Lloyd Williams , he was an executor of Packer's estate. While he provided advice to Packer, Gonski was also a director of Packer's media competitor, John Fairfax Holdings. He is close friends with Izzy Asper , Arthur Boyd , Rupert Murdoch , Kerry Stokes and Frank Lowy . His mentor

7308-402: Was returned to the front bench as Foreign Affairs Minister. Speculation as to Rudd's desire to return to the leadership of the party became a near constant feature of media commentary on the Labor Party. Minority government complicated Labor's response to the issue. In October 2011, Queensland backbencher Graham Perrett announced that if Labor replaced Gillard with Rudd, he would resign and force

7395-535: Was sworn in by Governor General Michael Jeffrey on 3 December 2007, with Gillard appointed deputy prime minister. Gillard was also assigned the portfolios of Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for Social Inclusion. In her role as a minister, Gillard removed the WorkChoices industrial relations regime introduced by the Howard government, as well as some earlier reforms of

7482-471: Was the Government of Australia led by the 27th prime minister of Australia , Julia Gillard , of the Australian Labor Party . The Gillard government succeeded the first Rudd government by way of the Labor Party leadership spill , and began on 24 June 2010, with Gillard sworn in as prime minister by the governor-general of Australia , Quentin Bryce . The Gillard government ended when Kevin Rudd won back

7569-420: Was the late Kim Santow . Gonski is married to a Boston-born dermatologist Orli Wargon, with whom he has three children: Michael, Kate and Timothy. In 2002, Gonski was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the community through Australian visual and performing arts organisations, through the development of government policy, and through the promotion of corporate sponsorship for

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