gillard moves to quell foreign worker row - Sydney Morning Herald
26 May 2012, 1:30 am
Prime Minister Julia gillard has stated no foreign worker will take an Australian job in the mining sector, as she tries to quell the controversy over 1700 foreign workers being allowed to work on a mining project in Western Australia. Union leaders have ...

gillard hits back over foreign worker backlash - ABC Online
25 May 2012, 10:31 pm
Prime Minister Julia gillard has promised to put Australian jobs first despite yesterday's decision to bring in more than 1,700 foreigners to work on a mine project in Western Australia. It was revealed earlier that Ms gillard, who had been in the United ...

gillard should fire Bowen: ETU - ninemsn
25 May 2012, 9:55 pm
Prime Minister gillard should fire Immigration Minister Chris Bowen and scrutinise resource companies in more detail, a union argues. The government's decision to allow the world's richest woman Gina Rinehart to import workers for her $9.5 billion Roy Hill ...

gillard grabs fifth title with easy win - Stuff
25 May 2012, 5:01 pm
Christchurch's Gary gillard repeated his 2011 effort when he convincingly won his fifth ILT City of Invercargill Snooker Open Title last weekend at the Invercargill Working Men's Club. gillard was in commanding form but his win over Southlander Danny Ryan ...

gillard paying price for gamble on the numbers - Brisbane Times
25 May 2012, 2:45 pm
WHILE the travails of Craig Thomson were the obsession in Canberra this week, there were a few other things going on in the national capital. Most notable among the non-Thomson news was the passage in the lower house of the gillard government's gambling ...

gillard dodges hard questions - The Australian
25 May 2012, 9:02 am
ONE of the more annoying aspects of Julia gillard's behaviour in parliament, and it is telltale, is her resort to double standards. On the one hand she likes to cast herself as the toughest person on her frontbench. Yet, faced with an invitation to explain ...

gillard calls for clear plan on Afghanistan - ABC Online
19 May 2012, 9:05 pm
Prime Minister Julia gillard says she wants a NATO summit in Chicago to provide a clear plan for local forces to take control of security in Afghanistan. Ms gillard has arrived in the US where she will attend the meeting on the future of Afghanistan as ...

gillard feels pressure to lift dole - Sydney Morning Herald
19 May 2012, 6:27 pm
Under pressure ... a quarter of Labor MPs say $245 a week is too little to live on. Photo: Michele Mossop Julia gillard faces mounting pressure from her backbench to increase the unemployment benefit as MPs argue it is so low people have been forced into ...

gillard Announces Budget Handout to Win Back ‘Battlers’ - Bloomberg
8 May 2012, 8:06 pm
Australia’s government, facing an election next year, scrapped a planned cut in company taxes to fund payouts for low- and middle-income earners in its budget as Prime Minister Julia gillard attempts to counter a slide in opinion polls.