“I am mindful of having a luxurious freedom, tempered with one self-imposed constraint, as I outline my thoughts. Being beyond politics, I am able to examine the role of the media without worrying about the indignant harrumphing that emanates from many journalists and commentators when you do so. For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism.”
Read extracts from Julia Gillard’s updated autobiography, My Story, on Tuesday from 12 noon. Plus an exclusive interview with Guardian Australia’s political editor Lenore Taylor.
