1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Bunjelung Calcuttin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: first peoples of these countries, both past and present. 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: Hello, how's your summer going. Are you on a road trip, 8 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: are you recovering from a big party in the sun, 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 2: or are you just taking a quiet walk, whatever the 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 2: case is, You are listening to a special summer series 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 2: of the TDA podcast. To kick off, we're going to 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 2: be revisiting a special project the team did in about 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: the middle of the year. It's called The Mirror, and 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 2: what we wanted to do was look at the ten 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: years of development since Julia Gillard's misogyny speech, particularly looking 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 2: at what's changed for women in politics since twenty twelve, 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: but also what stayed the same. Hope you enjoy it. 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 3: This episode of The Mirror is proudly supported by Mecca Empower, 19 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 3: a social change movement championing equality and opportunity for women 20 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: and girls. Julia Gillard's misogyny speech. 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 4: I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 4: this man. 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 3: The moment Australia's first female Prime minister, the only female 24 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: prime minister we have had stood up and said enough. 25 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 5: I will not not now, not ever. 26 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 3: During that fifteen minute speech, her fury at the former 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 3: Opposition leader Tony Abbott was visceral. 28 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,559 Speaker 4: Misogyny, sexism every day from this labor of the Opposition. 29 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 3: But this speech was in response to more than just 30 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 3: one man. 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 6: Do all this stuff about her wardrobe and her appearance. 32 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,919 Speaker 7: The language was a whore in a whorehouse. 33 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 5: Should be placed in a chast bag and thrown out 34 00:01:58,640 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 5: to sea. 35 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 8: Until the swim to ditch the witch. 36 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 3: July when Gillard said enough that day, it wasn't just Abbott. 37 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: She put on notice on. 38 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 9: Your succession, scenes, your mortal status, your ear lobes. 39 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 3: It was all of us. 40 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 4: Misogyny looks like you mod Australia from the Daily Os. 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: I'm Billy FitzSimons. This is the mirrors that year. Let's 42 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 3: start at the beginning. The day Australia got its first 43 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 3: female prime minister. 44 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 6: That day is see it on my memory for a 45 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 6: couple of reasons. 46 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 3: Phil Koury is a longtime journalist in the Press Gallery, 47 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: which is where journalists work in Parliament House. Today he's 48 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 3: the political editor at the Australian Financial Review, but on 49 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: the twenty third of June twenty ten, he worked for 50 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 3: the Sydney Morning Herald. 51 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 6: It was very very quiet, yearly quiet around the building. 52 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 3: At this point. Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister, but nearly 53 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 3: three years on from a landslide victory, support for Labor 54 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 3: was dwindling. There had been whispers in the corridors, rumors 55 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 3: that are challenge to Rudd was coming from within the party. 56 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 3: In other words, a leadership spill was brewing. 57 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 6: It's too quiet, something is going on. And it wasn't 58 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 6: until about six o'clock at night that I had completely 59 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 6: confirmed what was happening. That a delegation to go on 60 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 6: and see Julia Gillard that day and urged her to run, 61 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 6: and she decided to do it. 62 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 3: Gillard didn't become Prime Minister in the usual way, there 63 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: was no election, no public voting. Then deputy prime minister. 64 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 3: She went to Rudd and told him she had lost 65 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: confidence in the government. 66 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 6: He was leading the ABC broke News at about seven 67 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 6: o'clock at night. 68 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 10: In Breaking News Tonight, there are leadership rumblings within the 69 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 10: Runt government. 70 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 6: And then all hillbroke loosen. 71 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 4: Julia Gillard will challenge Kevin Rudd to become the first 72 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 4: female Prime Minister of Australia. 73 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 11: He will face his judgment day. Some are saying it'll 74 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 11: be his execution. 75 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 3: The next morning. Rudd stepped down as Labor leader and 76 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 3: Julia Gillard became Prime Minister. 77 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 6: The next Playber Prime Minister and the first female prime 78 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 6: minister of this country collected unopposed is Julia Gillard. 79 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 7: The way things happened, and the way that happened so fast, 80 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 7: I think gave everyone a sense of whiplash and a 81 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 7: sense of shock. 82 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 3: Jamila Risby was a staffer in the rud and Gillard governments. 83 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 7: Australians didn't know you could fall asleep the night before 84 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 7: and so you missed the ABC News and wake up 85 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 7: the next morning there was a new prime minister and 86 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 7: they hadn't been election. 87 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 3: Risby noticed the gendered language start immediately. 88 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 7: Even the positive gendered language, you know, the language that 89 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 7: really sort of reflected on the on the history of 90 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 7: the day. Began the next morning in the newspapers. I'm 91 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 7: laughing because like on the wall next to me there's 92 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 7: a framed front page of Herald's Son that says the 93 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 7: Boss and it says at the top, a new era 94 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 7: for Australia. 95 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 6: You know, at the time, it wasn't like you an 96 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 6: evil woman, Trounce's innocent man. It was, you know, Australia 97 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 6: gets its first female prime minister, and there was a 98 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 6: great deal of sort of excitement and expectation around that. 99 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 3: There is, of course a historical aspect to this Prime minister, 100 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 3: as she is Australia's first woman to attain the office. 101 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 3: What do you think of Julia Gillard? But what started 102 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 3: as a positive conversation about a woman breaking barriers to 103 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 3: become Australia's first female prime minister quickly turned. 104 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 7: The narrative of Gillard as and I'm using air quotes 105 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 7: here that the backstabber persisted for quite some time, that 106 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 7: kind of Lady Macbeth, woman in the night, you can't 107 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 7: trust the chicks kind of narrative really dialed up the 108 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 7: frenzy in the press around the fact that she toppled 109 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 7: one of her own. 110 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 6: So what do we know about Julia Gillard, the woman 111 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 6: at the center of this political firestorm. 112 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 2: Here where we got a few text messages last night 113 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 2: suggesting that Gillard has got blood on her hair. 114 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 10: The kind of a knock on the door at midnight 115 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 10: assassination style, which. 116 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 3: Is Brutus said, Julius Caesar, have we seen such an 117 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 3: act of betrayal? 118 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 6: And you could tell right there and then it wasn't 119 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 6: going to be easy for Julia Gillard. 120 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: Australia was forced to reckon with a type of prime 121 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 3: minister we hadn't experienced before. Not only was she the 122 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 3: first woman to lead the nation, but she was the 123 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: first prime minister who had never been married. 124 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 6: The day after Julia Gillard became the prime minister, I 125 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 6: bumped into one of the plotters, one of the factional heavyweights, that's. 126 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 3: A Labor Party person who supported Gillard in becoming the leader. 127 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 6: And I said, where's she going to live? And he said, oh, 128 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 6: in the lodge And I said, what with her boyfriend? 129 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 6: Then he said yeah. I said, you know, this is 130 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 6: a conservative country. You know, ethnic community is religion, communities, 131 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 6: you know. I said, don't you think you might have 132 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 6: taken a few months to get people used to this 133 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 6: notion before you had a single woman checked up with 134 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 6: a boyfriend in the lodge. 135 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 12: Gillard's partner is Tim Matheson, a hairdresser. 136 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 8: They have no children. 137 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 6: I don't have a problem with it. A lot of 138 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 6: people don't, but a lot of people will, and they did. 139 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 3: While questions about Gillard's personal life spread, her political life 140 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 3: was also under the microscope. Hello, less than a month 141 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 3: after taking over the leadership, Gillard called an election. 142 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 4: And today I seek a mandate from the Australian people 143 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,679 Speaker 4: to move Australia forward. 144 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 7: We wanted her to win so badly. I remember going 145 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 7: into that campaign feeling really positive. Gillard had taken over 146 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 7: the leadership. And yes there was some criticism about how 147 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 7: it happened, but people were excited. 148 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 10: You said she had appeal to voters female, male, old, 149 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 10: and yeah. 150 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 7: And there was a sense of momentum. I thought we 151 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 7: were going to romp it in. I really did. I 152 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 7: thought Labor was going to win by a mile, thank you. 153 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 7: And then by sort of two weeks three weeks into 154 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 7: the campaign, I started to get really concerned, appalling. 155 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 6: It was the worst campaign. I think it was a shocker, 156 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 6: and because she wasn't just facing Tony Abbott. She was 157 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,119 Speaker 6: facing Kevin Rud as well. 158 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 3: The assumption was that Rudd would resign from Parliament after 159 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 3: the spill, but he didn't. According to Kouri, his mission 160 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 3: was to destroy her. 161 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 6: I always like to say Gillard faced the two most 162 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 6: rapacious people in Australian politics ins Federation. She had Tony 163 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 6: Abbit on one side and Kevin Rud on the other. 164 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 6: And I thought at the time, goodness, this is you know, 165 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 6: this could be fraud. 166 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 3: Leagues from their own side were causing the government strife. 167 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 4: There's a strong and troublesome theme starting to emerge here 168 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 4: for the Guillard campaign. 169 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 3: Many were pointing to Rudd as the sort. 170 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 6: It's the cowards way, now it's the snake's way. 171 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 3: But it wasn't just Rudd causing problems here. Gillard was 172 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 3: facing criticism that her campaign felt two stage managed. 173 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 11: She was opinion polls now pointing to a nail bitingly 174 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 11: closed election rat. 175 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 3: She decided to reset and say from here on in, 176 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 3: I'll be more me. 177 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 6: She did the real Julia interview, well it's. 178 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 5: Really more of the real Julia Gillard. 179 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 6: Which essentially mean seeing a fake Julia. 180 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 11: Prompting the man who's after her job to question which Gillard? 181 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 6: We've been shown until now. 182 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 3: The campaign was proving difficult, but there was more than 183 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 3: just politics at play here, because Gillard wasn't dealing with 184 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 3: the standard election coverage, well at least not the standard 185 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 3: coverage her male predecessors had received, which focused on their 186 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 3: policies and ideas, not their partners and clothes. 187 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 7: I recall cartoon in newspapers depicting her as you know, 188 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 7: the language was a whore in a whorehouse, right, or 189 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 7: a madam in a whorehouse. 190 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 6: Kate Lee wrote a story in Australian about her earlobes 191 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 6: and a terrible wardrobe. 192 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 9: You would all concerned the amount of attention that's been 193 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 9: paid in this campaign on your fashion sense, your motal status, 194 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 9: your earlobes. 195 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 10: The novelty of a female prime minister is creating endless fascination. 196 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 2: Would your partner move into the lodge for example? 197 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 5: Oh? 198 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 4: Yes, Tim and I live together, so yes, wherever I live, 199 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 4: he'll live. 200 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 8: Happy to be the first to facto a couple living 201 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 8: in the lodge. Or are we to expect a prime 202 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 8: MINISTERI a wedding? 203 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 4: You know, a best man? 204 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 5: We could look. 205 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,119 Speaker 8: I make well. 206 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 6: Number bumped into Julia one day and what do you 207 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 6: call this stuff out? And she said, I'm not going 208 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 6: to play the gender car And because back then it 209 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 6: was seen as a weakness, it was as soon as 210 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 6: a weakness to play the gender card. 211 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 3: On the twenty first of August twenty ten, the election 212 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 3: finally arrived. 213 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 8: Election night was incredibly strange. 214 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 3: Sean Kelly was an advisor to Gillard. 215 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 8: Normally, on election night there would be elation from victory 216 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 8: or there would be sadness and desolation in defeat. But 217 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 8: that night it was certainly sad. It was a kind 218 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 8: of odd, empty hollow sadness. 219 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 3: There was no result that night. Labor and the Coalition 220 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 3: were tied, meaning there was a hung parliament. 221 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 4: Obviously this is too close to call. 222 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 8: It was funereal, but it was as though you were 223 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 8: waiting for someone to die. They hadn't died quite yet, 224 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,079 Speaker 8: so we didn't know. We didn't know that night what 225 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 8: the result would be. 226 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: When there's a hung parliament, it means the major parties 227 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 3: enter a phase of negotiation. So one of the major 228 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 3: parties will need to convince the minor parties and the 229 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 3: independence to form some sort of formal agreement with them 230 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 3: so that they can form government. This can take days 231 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 3: and sometimes even weeks. 232 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 5: Their returned to Canberra, knowing that battle was. 233 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 8: Far from over. 234 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 9: It could be a long slow pro. 235 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 4: Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott dashed to the national capital 236 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 4: to start wooing the Independence. 237 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 8: And then there followed two weeks of uncertainty. This tug 238 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 8: of wars. Labor and Liberal fought to persuade the Independence 239 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 8: that they should vote with one side or the other. 240 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 3: After weeks of negotiation, Gillard managed to form a minority government. 241 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 4: Labor is prepared to deliver stable, effective and secure government 242 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 4: for the next three years. 243 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 3: Labor had formed government partly with the support of the Greens, 244 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 3: but in making that deal, Gillard agreed to implement a 245 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 3: carbon pricing scheme. Now we're not going to get into 246 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 3: the detail of that policy. It's important to understand how 247 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 3: it was perceived. 248 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 8: Julia Gillard made a very clear commitment on the eve 249 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 8: of that twenty. 250 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 4: Ten election there will be no carbon tax. 251 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 8: Saying that there would be no carbon tax under a 252 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 8: government she. 253 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 3: Let so when she made her deal with the Greens, 254 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 3: it was seen by many as her breaking an election promise. 255 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 12: For plenty of Australians. The carbon tax is harder to 256 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 12: swallow than the pollution that's designed to reduce. They're quite 257 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 12: literally choking on the idea. 258 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 8: And that idea that she had broken a promise at 259 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 8: the election was turned into a devastating weapon against her. 260 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 8: There was an absolutely poisonous campaign run not just against 261 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 8: the policy but against Julia Gillard as a person. And 262 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 8: it harts back to that sense of betrayal, and again, 263 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 8: I think to that sense of the archetype of the deceptive, 264 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 8: duplicitous woman that has existed throughout history. She was called Julier. 265 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 8: I think it was coined by the shock Shock. Alan Jones, 266 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 8: the Prime Minister. Julia Gillard, is in the studio in Canberra. 267 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 8: Pro Minister, good morning, Good morning Alan. 268 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 12: Do you understand Julia that you are the issue today 269 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 12: because there are people now saying your name is not 270 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 12: Julia but ju liar, and they are saying that we've 271 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 12: got a liar running the country. Just listen to Brad 272 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 12: here who rang this morning Julia. The lines were on fire. 273 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 12: Believe me about this, and this is what Brad said. 274 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 8: I felt in the stomach. I feel like I could cry. 275 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 8: How much of this rating have we got to tolerate 276 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 8: from this government. There were huge rallies held. Those rallies 277 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 8: were not just poisonous, they were incredibly misogynistic. 278 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 11: Liar, Liar, panton fire, Liar, liar, panton fire. 279 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 12: You know we've been lied to and Julia is a 280 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 12: rotten liar. 281 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 8: Tony Abbott stood up at those rallies in front of 282 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 8: Parliament House. 283 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 11: Prime ministers are entitled to change their mind, but a 284 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 11: Prime minister is not entitled to change her mind on 285 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 11: something as important as this without going back to the people. 286 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 10: And see. 287 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 8: In front of signs, with signs around him saying ditch 288 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 8: the witch and Bob Brown's bitch. 289 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 3: Senator Bob Brown was the leader of the Greens. 290 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 8: These are horrible repellent terms that are being used about 291 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 8: a prime minister, about a female prime minister, about the 292 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 8: first female prime minister of this country. 293 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 5: There was a sort of a rolling pressure and darkness. 294 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 3: Emma Webster was in her early twenties when she entered 295 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: Parliament in twenty twelve as a staffer in Julie Gillard's office, 296 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 3: and he gave her this rare insight into what Gillard 297 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 3: was facing. 298 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 5: It did really take a toll on the mood in 299 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 5: the office. There was a cuts who whenever he drew 300 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 5: images of Gillard they were quite pornographic, and he would 301 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 5: always draw her with big dildos attached to her, and 302 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 5: it was like he couldn't possibly grasp in his own 303 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 5: mind that a prime minister could govern and not have 304 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 5: male genitalia. 305 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 3: In August twenty twelve, the head of an agriculture company 306 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 3: made a speech. He was speaking about an abatuar designed 307 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 3: just lorda quote non productive old cows, and he said something. 308 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 5: Like Julie Gillard's got to watch out. 309 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 3: And this wasn't or one off. 310 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 5: A few years prior, a parliamentary colleague described her as 311 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 5: deliberately barren and said that she couldn't possibly be able 312 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 5: to govern over Australians or Australian families, because what would 313 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 5: she know about families She hasn't had kids. 314 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 3: The sexist attacks on Gillard were becoming more personal. On 315 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 3: the eighth of September twenty twelve, Gillard's father died. Three 316 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 3: weeks later, a journalist leaked to this secret recording of 317 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 3: Alan Jones speaking at the Sydney University Liberal Club. 318 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 12: Lie every person in the cause of the labor Julia 319 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 12: Gillards everybody ill. 320 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:21,959 Speaker 5: He said Gillard's father had died of shame. And at 321 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 5: the same function that Alan Jones said that he signed 322 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 5: a jacket that was made of. 323 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 3: Chaff bags, basically a woven durable bag. 324 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 5: Which were then going to be auctioned at a liberal fundraiser, 325 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 5: and that was a reference to his repeated statements a 326 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 5: year before that the Prime minister should be placed in 327 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 5: a chaff bag and thrown out to see if you're. 328 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 12: In the same chaff bag as Julia Gillard, and throw 329 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 12: them both out to sea. 330 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 3: At this point, Gillard was still hesitant to play the 331 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 3: so called gender card. 332 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 5: I know, Gillard made a deliberate choice at the start 333 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 5: of her prime ministership, and she thought the sort of 334 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 5: sexist quips would melt away and people would sort of 335 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 5: stand up and call it out. But it was becoming 336 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 5: increasingly obvious that that wasn't happening. 337 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 3: In October twenty twelve, Gillard's government was struggling. They were 338 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 3: barely hanging on to power, and then something happened that 339 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 3: took them right to the precipice of losing control. The 340 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 3: year before, they had made a strange decision. It's the 341 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 3: government's responsibility to choose who the Speaker of the House 342 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 3: of Representatives will be. That's an MP who's in charge 343 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 3: of maintaining order on the parliamentary floor. Normally governments choose 344 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 3: someone from their own party to take this important role. 345 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 3: But because the speaker doesn't typically vote on legislation, and 346 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 3: the Gillard government needed every vote they could get, they 347 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 3: chose to put someone from outside their party in the 348 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 3: speaker's seat. 349 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 6: Go on to this rerel Liberal called Peter Slippert. 350 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 3: He become speaker. Slipper left the Liberal Party and became 351 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 3: an independent. 352 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 6: So like making Peter Slipper the speaker, there was a 353 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 6: labor guy who went onto the floor and became another vote. 354 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 5: Now. Once Peter Slipper became speaker, he employed a man 355 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 5: named James Ashby. 356 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 3: Soon after Ashby was employed, he came forward with sexual 357 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 3: harassment allegations against Peter Slipper. 358 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 7: Provocative new details have emerged in the sexual harassment case 359 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 7: against the parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper. 360 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 3: In his solicitors he had text messages which would go 361 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 3: on to be evidence in a court case. 362 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 5: I've got the text messages here if you want me 363 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 5: to read them out. But they are pretty like, they're 364 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 5: pretty awful. 365 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 3: The text messages crudely referenced vaginas. 366 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 5: Slipper goes, funny, how we say that a person is 367 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 5: a C when many guys like comes to which Ashby said, 368 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 5: not I, and then Slipper replied, they look like a 369 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 5: muscle removed from its shell. Look at a bottle of 370 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 5: muscle meat. Saltykis in Brian so just disgusting, anti woman like, 371 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 5: totally inexcusable. 372 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 3: Okay, let's unpack where we are. Slipper was a coalition 373 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 3: man for decades, so he was from the opposition, but 374 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 3: it was Gillard who put him in the position of speaker, 375 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 3: so the opposition had leverage for an attack. On the 376 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: morning of the ninth of October twenty twelve, Julia Gillard 377 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 3: didn't know it yet, but she would soon make the 378 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: most famous speech of her political career. 379 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 8: Part of my job was to prep the Prime Minister 380 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 8: for question time, to anticipate what questions might come in 381 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 8: to help plan answers. 382 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 3: It seemed inevitable that the questions from Tony Abbott and 383 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 3: the opposition would all be about Peter Slipper. 384 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 8: And there was a sense that Tony Abbott was going 385 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 8: to come at her in the Parliament on this issue, 386 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 8: and speaking to juliagal Lard that day, she was incredibly 387 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 8: riled up. She was angry at the idea that Tony Abbott, 388 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,479 Speaker 8: who had a record of horribly sexist comments behind him, 389 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 8: might try to turn the issue of sexism to his 390 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 8: favor against the first female prime minister of the country, 391 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 8: and not just the first female prime minister, but the 392 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 8: first female prime minister who had dealt with so much 393 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 8: sexism directed at her, and some of it directed by 394 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 8: Tony Abbott. And I think the idea that a man 395 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 8: with those types of views, who had deliberately used sexism 396 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 8: as a political weapon, would now turn to that and 397 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 8: try to use it as a weapon himself was beyond 398 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 8: the pal for Julia Gillard. 399 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 3: Gillard went to the House of Representatives prepared to defend 400 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 3: her government. 401 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 5: She was preparing to go into a question time where 402 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 5: she thought every question was going to be about Peter Slipper. 403 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 3: But that's not what happened. 404 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 6: Question Tom got suspended. 405 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 3: Abbot put forward a motion to remove Slipert from the 406 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 3: role of speaker. 407 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 10: That this Speaker is so longer it's been a proper 408 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 10: person to uphold the dignity of the parliament. 409 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 3: So the Parliament had to go to a debate. 410 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 10: Because what this Prime Minister has done is shame this Parliament. 411 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 10: And should she rise in this place now to try 412 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 10: to defend the Speaker, to try to say that she 413 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 10: retains confidence in this speaker, she will shame this parliament again. 414 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 5: It was either the first time or one of the 415 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 5: first times she had been back in Parliament since her 416 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 5: father had passed away, and since those awful remarks from 417 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 5: Alan Jones about her father dying of shame, and Abbott 418 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 5: in his contribution to the motion he said, this government 419 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 5: is dying of shame. 420 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 10: And every day the Prime Minister stands in this Parliament 421 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 10: to defend this speaker will be another day of shame 422 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 10: for this parla, another day of shame for a government 423 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 10: which should already have died of shame. 424 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 5: So she had a couple of minutes while Abbott made 425 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 5: a contradition where she basically scribbled out a couple of 426 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 5: dot points. Then she finally had an opportunity to fire back. 427 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 8: I call the Prime Minister, thank you very much. 428 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 4: Deputy Speaker, and I rise to oppose the motion moved 429 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 4: by the Leader of the Opposition, and in so doing 430 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 4: I say to the Leader of the Opposition, I will 431 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 4: not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. 432 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 4: I will not and not be lectured about sex and 433 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 4: misogyny by this man, not now, not ever. The Leader 434 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 4: of the Opposition says that people who hold sexist views 435 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 4: and who melogenists are not appropriate for high office. Well, 436 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,479 Speaker 4: I hope the Leader of the Opposition has got a 437 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 4: piece of paper and he is writing out his resignation, 438 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 4: because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like 439 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 4: in modern Australia, he doesn't need a motion in the 440 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 4: House of Representatives. He needs a mirror. 441 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 3: That's what he needs. 442 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 4: Can I indicate to the Leader of the Opposition the 443 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 4: government is not dying of shame. My father did not 444 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 4: die of shame. What the Leader of the Opposition should 445 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 4: be as shamed of is his performance in this Parliament 446 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 4: and the sexism he brings with it. 447 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 5: One of the best parts of the speech is when 448 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 5: she just freestyles and looks over at Abbott looking at 449 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 5: his watch and says it. 450 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 4: Now looking at his watch, because apparently a woman spoken 451 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 4: to live. 452 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 5: Had him yell at me to shut up in the past. 453 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 4: But I will take the remaining I will take the 454 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 4: remaining seconds of my I speak in time. 455 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 5: And she could see the clock ticking down, and she 456 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 5: timed it perfectly to sort of say. 457 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 4: And the leader of the opposition should think seriously about 458 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 4: the role of women in public life and in Australian society, 459 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 4: because we are entitled. 460 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 5: To a better end than this boom and then boom 461 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 5: time finishes. 462 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 7: I thought it was an incredible speech, but I don't 463 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 7: think anyone knew what was going to happen. 464 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 3: Next next week on the Mirror, it just went everywhere. 465 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 3: The speech was a viral international hit. 466 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,719 Speaker 7: I mean, I've got a tea towel. They fell merchandise 467 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 7: with that speech on it now. 468 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 3: But was it enough to change how Gillard was treated? 469 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 5: There was even more misogyny after the misogyny. 470 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 3: Speech, or to save her government and you were. 471 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 6: Talking about a governor on the brink of collapse. 472 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 3: The Mirror is researched by Lucy Tassel, produced and edited 473 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 3: by Nina Koppel. I'm Billy Fitsimons and if you enjoyed 474 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 3: this episode, you can subscribe, leave a rating and send 475 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 3: it to a friend. Episode two is dropping next week. 476 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 3: See you then. 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