Australia’s experiment with a female prime minister has failed. When she took the job 12 months ago, Julia Gillard needed to position herself as a centre-left Margaret Thatcher, an Antipodean Iron Lady, projecting strength and dignity in office. This would have addressed the concerns of male voters, worried that a woman was too weak for the job.
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