Dear Followers, Today's post is about Australia's brave and outspoken 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Born in Wales in 1961, she and her family moved to Australia in 1966 in hopes of improving Julia's respiratory problems (and the family's economic prospects). Like most migrants from the U.K. at that time, they arrived by boat. Active in student politics studied at the University of Adelaide in 1982 she was elected vice-president of the … [Read more...]