La Trobe Leichhardt. This seat covers sq. Loses more than 30, voters in parts of Altona Meadows, Laverton, Williams Landing, Point Cook and Seabrook to Gellibrand as the boundary between the two seats shifts west. The Labor margin rises from Lalor was an electorate created on the expansion of the Parliament in It is named after Peter Lalor, a leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion.
The rebellion led to reform of the Legislative Council to which Lalor was later elected, going on to spend several decades as an anti-establishment candidate in a very establishment chamber. Lalor has traditionally been a safe Labor seat, falling to the Liberal Party only once, at Labor's landslide defeat to Harold Holt at the election.
Former members include Whitlam government minister Jim Cairns , Labor activist and public intellectual Barry Jones , and former Prime Minister Julia Gillard Kate Oski was the Liberal Party's original choice of candidate. She was forced to withdraw a day after the election date was announced when issues arose concerning whether she had dual citizenship. A second candidate fell by the wayside during the campaign, with Green candidate Jay Dessi resigning over inappropriate social media posts.
Results Click on polling place for more detail of result. Murphy is a small business owner working as a client engagement consultant. She lives in Werribee with her husband and two children and has lived in the Wyndham area for 18 years.
She has worked or volunteered in many different community areas and groups including schools, kindergartens and churches.
She has also been involved in fund-raising for groups such as the Cancer Council. Murphy was the Liberal candidate for this seat in and for the local state seat of Werribee at last November's state election. She was the chairwoman of Wyndham Residents Against the Toxic Dump in the late s and was the acting principal of Galvin Park Secondary College in Werribee when it suffered major storm damage. Ryan was Julia Gillard's choice to be the new Labor candidate in , but had to overcome some administrative problems over having let her Labor Party membership lapse.
Robinson has a background in the electrical trade, warehousing and logistics. He currently works as the customer service coordinator for a national product distributer. He was born and raised in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Dessi grew up in Mount Gambier in South Australia and spent some of his childhood and teenage years living with his parents in public housing. In February , Ms Gillard was appointed chair of the Global Partnership for Education, a leading organisation dedicated to expanding access and quality education worldwide.
Ms Gillard also serves as Patron of CAMFED, the Campaign for Female Education, which tackles poverty and inequality by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change. A sister institute has been launched at the Australian National University.
Ms Gillard was born in Barry, Wales in She is the daughter of a nurse and aged care worker. I'm also very proud of the foreign policy achievements of this Government. Things people said couldn't be done we have done, particularly we have strengthened both our alliance with the US while taking a major stride forward in our relationship with China.
I'm very pleased too that we have taken big strides forward in other relationships including our relationship with India. I am confident that I leave the prime ministership having strengthened the relationship with our major partners, every one of them. I also believe the work we have done in Afghanistan is something to be proud of as an Australian nation. One of the things that has most delighted me as Prime Minister and before that as Deputy Prime Minister has been getting to know our Defence Force personnel.
I can't claim that I came out of opposition with any great experience in defence or any great exposure to Australian Defence Force personnel. Now I have had both experience in defence and that exposure and whilst there are issues to address in our Defence Force about the treatment of women overwhelmingly the men and women of our ADF are great Australians and getting to know them has been a real privilege.
I'm very aware of the courage and the sacrifice and part of being Prime Minister has been being there for those families in their darkest moments. My colleagues through all of this journey have provided me with great support and I want to thank them for that great support. I say to my caucus colleagues: don't lack the guts, don't lack the fortitude, don't lack the resilience to go out there with our Labor agenda and to win this election.
I know that it can be done. They defied political gravity time after time to provide me with more support as the leader of the Labor Party when the going got incredibly tough. When all of those that read polls and do the commentary on them were saying that there was only one logical conclusion, and that was to change the leader, my colleagues showed courage, they showed determination, they showed spine in the face of that kind of pressure.
They showed conviction in our Labor project and in our Labor cause. They showed belief in the agenda of this Labor Government.
I understand that at the caucus meeting today, the pressure finally got too great for many of my colleagues. I respect that. And I respect the decision that they have made.
But I do say to my caucus colleagues: don't lack the guts, don't lack the fortitude, don't lack the resilience to go out there with our Labor agenda and to win this election. And I also say to my caucus colleagues that that will best be done by us putting the divisions of the past behind us, and uniting as a political party, making sure we put our best face forward at the forthcoming election campaign, and in the years beyond.
I want to just say a few remarks about being the first woman to serve in this position. There's been a lot of analysis about the so-called gender wars. Me playing the so-called gender card because heavens knows no-one noticed I was a woman until I raised it, but against that background, I do want to say about all of these issues, the reaction to being the first female Prime Minister does not explain everything about my prime ministership, nor does it explain nothing about my prime ministership.
I've been a little bit bemused by those colleagues in the newspapers who have admitted that I have suffered more pressure as a result of my gender than other prime ministers in the past but then concluded that it had zero effect on my political position or the political position of the Labor Party.
It doesn't explain everything, it doesn't explain nothing, it explains some things. And it is for the nation to think in a sophisticated way about those shades of grey. What I am absolutely confident of is it will be easier for the next woman and the woman after that and the woman after that.
And I'm proud of that.
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