Julia Gillard’s time as Australian prime minister may only have lasted three years but the former Labor leader delivered one of the most memorable moments in Australian political history.
On 9 October 2012, the country’s first female prime minister was under immense pressure to keep her government in power amid scandals and increasingly personal attacks.
Then-opposition leader Tony Abbott had recently been photographed at an anti-carbon tax rally next to placards calling her “Juliar”, “[Greens leader] Bob Brown’s bitch” and reading “Ditch the witch”.
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