Why did julia gillard resign

Julia Eileen GillardAC (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian politician who was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia. She became the first female Prime Minister of Australia. She was also Australia's first unmarried prime minister.^[1] Gillard was the first prime minister not born in Australia since Billy Hughes, who served from 1915 to 1923.^[2]

Gillard became the leader of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 when Kevin Rudd resigned. She had been Deputy Prime Minister under Kevin Rudd. On 11 December 2007, Rudd went to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. Gillard became the first woman in Australia's history to take on the prime-ministerial role as the acting prime minister.^[3]

Gillard was elected to the House of Representatives in 1988. She represented the Division of Lalor, in western suburbs of Melbourne.

Early life

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Gillard was born in 1961 in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wale What makes them run? - Inside Story.