The Latest Breaking News from Julia Gillard

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says that Labor inherited a trillion dollars of "Liberal debt" when it came to office, and that Labor's share of that, left to the previous Coalition government was "a tiny fraction". RMIT ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.

As the government weighs up whether to extend single parenting payments to parents of children older than the present cutoff age of eight in this week’s budget, new information has come to light about what happened when the rules were tightened in 2013.

South Australia’s royal commission into early childhood education led by Julia Gillard has released an interim report. The key recommendation is preschool for all three-year-olds (in a move similar to other states). But the report notes one of the critical considerations around this change will be the early education workforce.

A royal commission, led by former prime minister Julia Gillard, has recommended 15 hours per week of preschool be made available to all three-year-olds in South Australia.

Former prime minister Julia Gillard has recommended preschool education be provided to all three-year-olds in SA in her interim royal commission report.

When those who reach the highest office suffer such brutal misogyny, is it any wonder that breaking the glass ceiling doesn’t look like much fun?

After decades covering federal politics in Canberra, my embarrassment at not knowing Warren Denning’s Caucus Crisis: The Rise and Fall of the Scullin Government (1937) was partly assuaged when an older colleague revealed the same.

Just over 10 years ago, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up in the House of Representatives to deliver one of the most unforgettable political speeches in recent memory.

New Guardian investigation sheds light on the more than £1bn in income the royal family made from controversial estates