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| Former prime minister Julia Gillard will publish her memoirs next year focusing on her time in politics. | Former prime minister Julia Gillard will publish her memoirs next year focusing on her time in politics. |
| Random House has announced it will publish the book in October 2014. In a YouTube clip released with the announcement Gillard said she thought a lot about the timing but wanted to commit pen to paper while the events were still fresh “both emotionally and intellectually”. | |
| “I want to weave the politics and personal together. It’s not going to be a biography from the day I was born all through my school years or anything like that, but I do want to draw on my personal experiences and how they informed my politics,” she said. | “I want to weave the politics and personal together. It’s not going to be a biography from the day I was born all through my school years or anything like that, but I do want to draw on my personal experiences and how they informed my politics,” she said. |
| “I also want to try to answer those questions which were so often put to me. How do you do it? How do you get up every day and do it? And also why did you do it? What was really important to you to get done as prime minister?” | “I also want to try to answer those questions which were so often put to me. How do you do it? How do you get up every day and do it? And also why did you do it? What was really important to you to get done as prime minister?” |
| Gillard said she was using the writing process to reflect on her time in politics. | Gillard said she was using the writing process to reflect on her time in politics. |
| “When you’re prime minister a lot of what you say is mediated through others and that is understandable but this will be my words, direct,” she said. | “When you’re prime minister a lot of what you say is mediated through others and that is understandable but this will be my words, direct,” she said. |
| Gillard confirmed she would be writing the book herself and not using a ghostwriter. | Gillard confirmed she would be writing the book herself and not using a ghostwriter. |
| She joked that the touch-typing skills her mother made her learn so she would always be employable were coming in very handy. | She joked that the touch-typing skills her mother made her learn so she would always be employable were coming in very handy. |
| “I enjoy writing. I genuinely enjoy writing. It can be a struggle from time to time and I’m sure there will be moments when I’m pacing around the block trying to get a new idea but I do want to write it myself. I’m very committed to the idea,” she said. | “I enjoy writing. I genuinely enjoy writing. It can be a struggle from time to time and I’m sure there will be moments when I’m pacing around the block trying to get a new idea but I do want to write it myself. I’m very committed to the idea,” she said. |
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