Julia Gillard News

Sitting down to story time with Auburn West primary school students in Sydney on Wednesday, one bright spark asked Julia Gillard how much longer she had left as prime minister.

DAVID MARK: Ford may be abandoning its Australian manufacturing operations, but it will still benefit from $34 million in Federal Government assistance announced last year.

Ford Australia's manufacturing facilities will close their gates for the final time in 2016 with thousands of job losses.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard today promised to look into allowing Sikhs to wear turbans at work places and also while riding a motorcycle.

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says we have lost a wonderful Australian with the death of former first lady Hazel Hawke.

JULIA Gillard's communications chief has leapt to the defence of radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands saying he touches ''the hearts of millions of people''. ''I have no idea why you - and it appears your paper - have a vendetta against Kyle.

Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart is rated as more influential than Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a list of the world's most powerful women released by Forbes magazine.

PRODUCT design and innovation should be the top priority for the ailing automotive industry, says David Purchase, executive director of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

ONE of the world's most high-profile gay rights advocates has urged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to support gay marriage and help end suicide by gay teenagers.

Ford Motor Co. will stop making cars in Australia, nine decades after founder Henry Ford first began building Model Ts in the country, as a surge in the currency undermines the local industry's ability to compete with imports.

Sunday, May 12 saw the inaugural Merimbula Mother's Day Classic being held for the first time in the Bega Valley Shire.

JULIA Gillard says a deal is yet to be inked on live betting odds being spruiked during television broadcasts, despite reports today the issue had been finalised.

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's one hour public forum in western Sydney went from hilarious to emotional and back again.

He said the student council was petitioning and would directly lobby Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, sitting MPs and Coalition candidates.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says a "personal journey" has led him to change his mind and support same-sex marriage - a position that puts him at odds with his leader, Julia Gillard.

Voters will be asked by Julia Gillard to vote ''yes'' in a referendum to include local governments in the constitution at the polls on September 14.

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week.

VICTORIAN students risk being "left behind" from those in NSW schools, says Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she urged parents to "raise their voices" in support of her education plan.

The wonks, the flacks, the hacks and the headkickers - here are the people who are doing their damnedest to get Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott into the Lodge.

A new Fairfax/Nielsen poll has Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott neck-and-neck on 46 per cent as preferred PM.