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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”. | 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 would not use 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." | |
| The former prime minister also took part in an interview broadcast on YouTube on Wednesday by Laureate International Universities in New York. | |
| She used the outing to defend her government’s carbon pricing policy. The former Labor leader acknowledged that the clean energy package had been politically contentious in Australia, but she said a market-based mechanism to reduce carbon emissions was a model that would “stand the test of time”. | |
| She also spoke of her plans post-politics. In an interview with Guardian Australia earlier this year, Gillard nominated the following as her personal bucket list: “Pass lasting education reforms, see the Western Bulldogs win the AFL Premiership, stay at Giraffe Manor in Kenya, walk the Way of St James through Spain and France, have Tilda Swinton play me in a movie.” | |
| Tilda Swinton didn’t get a look-in during her interview in the US on Wednesday – but she nominated travel as part of her future plans, as well as advocacy on education and women’s issues. | |
| “I’m looking forward to doing some international travel and pursuing internationally the causes I’ve been so passionate about locally in Australia, particularly education and empowerment for women and girls,” she said. | |
| Gillard said any organisation in this day and age should be comprised of 50% women. | |
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