News about Julia Gillard

A NSW man has revealed how he lost $411,000 in a Facebook scam that featured Elon Musk and Anthony Albanese promoting a get-rich-quick scheme. Gary Meachen, 71, from Broke in the NSW Hunter Valley lost his entire life savings after being tricked by a video that featured billionaire Elon Musk discussing a cryptocurrency scheme with a suite of high-profile individuals. Footage of Mr Albanese, Natalie Barr, Karl Stefanovic, Julia Gillard and Piers Morgan was manipulated to make it appear as if they were discussing the scheme. Mr Meachen, a long-time fan of Musk, was told he was one of '45 chosen ones who will get a chance to earn money that will change your life'.

Greg Combet, the former Labor cabinet minister who also worked with former ABC TV newsreader Juanita Phillips, will soon be in charge of the government Future Fund.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on a well-travelled route in breaking an election pledge he made repeatedly to the Australian public. Many executives before him have done the same. Julia Gillard with her carbon levy, Kevin Rudd of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Tony Abbott with cuts to health care, and John Howard with the GST. Of them all, only one of them survived the election that came after the broken promise was broken.

In 2024 and 2025, Stephen Halmarick, Australia's top economist, expects six interest rates cuts, implying that inflation will rise at a faster rate than the Reserve Bank expected.

Since a significant tax break was cancelled, treasurer Jim Chalmers' mid-year budget analysis revealed how a significant personal income tax windfall is propping up the Federal Budget. Dr Chalmers' mid-year budget outlook (MYEFO), released on Wednesday, is almost guaranteed to produce back-to-back surpluses with the Federal budget deficit forecast for this fiscal year cut to just $1.1 billion.

After the surprise decision by the court last week, immigration Minister Andrew Giles told the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon that the federal government is considering an urgent fix. Following the decision, hundreds of international-born nationals who were detained by the government are immediately released, including a paedophile who assaulted a boy, ten in western Sydney, and a Malaysian hitman who murdered a pregnant woman. The crisis unfoldes as the Prime Minister prepares to fly to the United States in order to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, or APEC. Mr Albanese should cancel the performance, according to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who was only ever missed by one PM, Julia Gillard, when her father died.

The Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate for the 13th time in 18 months last week to a 12-year high of 4.4 percent, leaving several mortgage holders struggling to keep up with their repayments. It came in the same week as two of Australia's major banks reported record profits of over $7 billion per week. The 'newer generation is really being hit hard at the moment,' says Michael Pallier, founder of Sydney Sotheby's International Realty.' 'It's not the older generation,' Mr Pallier said in 60 minutes.' 'The elderly generation is prospering because a lot of them have money in the bank and they're living on their investments.' The younger generation is really struggling.'

As millions of Australian homeowners remain on tenterhooks, Yellow Brick Road executive chairman Mark Bouris made the startling prediction. The RBA will announce its decision at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, just half an hour before the Melbourne Cup. 'I actually think if they do this, we may find ourselves in a downturn,' he told 2GB's Ben Fordham.

Both Australia's Big Four banks (Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn, left, and his ANZ counterpart Shayne Elliott) are expecting a Melbourne Cup Day rate increase. Since some troubling inflation data was revealed, the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and ANZ all changed their minds. On Tuesday, bad news for borrowers would mark the 13th rate rise in 18 months and see the Reserve Bank's cash rate rise to a 12-year high of 4.6 percent. Payments on an average $600,000 mortgage will increase by another $99.

On Monday, all living former prime ministers bar Keating joined together to pledge their support for Israel at the Zionist Federation of Australia's request. In a two-page letter, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison call for an end to the bullying of people on both directions of the conflict. According to them, the only true evil in the aftermath of the Israel-Palestine war is the Hamas terrorists, who live so long as groups continue attacking each other in the aftermath.

Julia Gillard, the former prime minister's spouse, has used his friendship with her to get out of a harsher sentence for a perverted sexual assault of a female friend. Tim Mathieson, who was known as Australia's "first bloke" during Ms Gillard's tenure as Australia's "first bloke," was charged on Thursday and fined $7000. Mathieson sucked the nipple of his sleeping companion after she fell asleep on her couch before returning for more when she protested.

After acting out how Australians generally behave when visiting America, an Australian has left thousands in stitches. Tamz Jade mocked the amusing habit, and hundreds of people admitted to doing the same thing when abroad.

The message was unearthed on Wednesday during continuing debate over Professor Langton's dismissal of the campaign opposing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. "You so deserve a slow, painful death, and mocking obituaries," Professor Langton wrote. Two examples of "humiliating obituaries" have appeared: "Australians celebrate as a white supremacist, homophobic, far right wing arsehole who has died," says the narrator, "Australians look forward to a life without hate."

Tim Mathieson, 66, has been charged with sexually assaulting the woman at Brunswick East in Melbourne's inner city on March 13, 2013. Mathieson, who appeared during Ms Gillard's tenure as Australia's "first bloke," appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Brad Penno, his brother, requested that the matter be postponed to October 19 for a plea hearing, but Mathieson has pleaded guilty to a single accusation of sexual assault.

On Friday, the former Labor Party leader was speaking at Government House in Adelaide, South Australia, when audience member Biddy O'Loughlin introduced her on the spot. 'What is a woman? Ms O'Loughlin said, 'I'm not sure'.' 'Do you agree with Queensland's Attorney General Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman that trans women are women and with UK's leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer that some women can have a penis?' Ms Gillard said she was'very excited' to answer the question before launching into a tumultuous, four-minute response that failed to explicitly mention either part of the issue.

Julia Gillard, the former prime minister's ex-husband, was sentenced to ten years in prison for stalking. Tim Mathieson has been charged with two counts of stalking after he allegedly broke into a woman's house without her permission, according to Daily Mail Australia. Mathieson, the bloke who ruled Ms Gillard's reign as Australia's first bloke, appeared via videolink in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday, where his barrister announced that he would plead guilty to a single sex offence.

Julia Gillard's former husband Tim Mathieson has pleaded guilty to sexually touching a woman without her permission. On March 13, the 66-year-old alleged of sexually touching a woman by sucking her nipple without her permission in Brunswick East, Melbourne's inner-city.

In a public address by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ex-boyfriend Julia Gillard's ex-boyfriend, a sexist and racial joke has resurfaced, prompting a suspicion of sexual harassment. Timothy Mathieson appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday via videoconferencing, where his barrister announced that he would plead guilty to a single sex offence charge. At a reception at The Lodge in Canberra in 2013, when Gillard was Prime Minister and Mr Mathieson was named as 'Australia's first bloke' and that he spoke to the Australian and West Indies cricket teams about prostate cancer awareness.

Julia Gillard's ex-girlfriend is set to plead guilty to a sexual assault. Timothy Raymond Mathieson, a bloke during Ms Gillard's tenure as Australia's "first bloke," appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday, where his barrister announced that he would plead guilty to a single sex offence charge. The full story of the sexual assault remain unknown, with two other related charges pending to be dropped as a result of a settlement with prosecutors.

Michele Bullock owns her family's home in Five Dock and Drummoyne, as well as investment properties in nearby Russell Lea and Drummoyne, which could bring in as much as $1,335 in rent each week. Ms Bullock, a self-described 'country girl,' was appointed as the successor to troubled RBA chief Philip Lowe, who was helming for a record 12 percent increase in just 13 months. Ms Bullock will play a role in a period of considerable stress for families around Australia, with many families struggling as a result of multiple mortgage hikes. She does not have a mortgage on her primary residence, but she does have two investment properties, according to reports.

On Friday, the former Liberal stafferer took to Instagram to announce her appointment with a multinational company by posting a series of snapshots (left and right) of her at a conference in Geneva. Brittany Higgins' update comes after rumors swirled in May that she and fiancé David Sharaz (inset) had left the country for Europe so she could perform duties in the UK related to her position as Prime Minister Julia Gillard's foundation.

After raising interest rates 12 times in less than a year, Philip Lowe has been promoted to the Reserve Bank governor, becoming Australia's first female RBA boss.

Since moving to north Queensland in the 1990s, Ewen Jones was the Liberal MP for the Townsville-based seat of Herbert from 2010 to 2016. He is a stalwart of his community. Emma Jones, his son, announced his sudden death on Thursday.

Simon Crean's distinguished career as a union leader and a central Labor figure saw him advance industrial relations, meet the popular John Howard, condemn the Iraq War, and spark a leadership debate against Julia Gillard that resulted in his political demise. Mr Crean, 74, died on Sunday while in Europe for trade and trade meetings. While hiking in Germany, he is suspected of having suffered a heart attack. He will be remembered as one of the pioneers of the Hawke government's dramatic industrial relations reforms in the 1980s and as one of the most influential political figures of modern Labor.