Also, Australia has a female PM. And Kevin Rudd is Out.

Her name is Julia Gillard, and from what I’ve seen on TV, she’s pretty impressive. Watch out, world.

America, you’ve really got some catching up  to do now.

from Wikipedia:

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is the 27th Prime Minister of Australia.

Gillard became the Leader of the Australian Labor Party at the 2010 Australian Labor Party leadership election on 24 June 2010 and was sworn in as prime minister later that day. She had previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia under Kevin Rudd. On 11 December 2007, she became the first woman in Australia’s history to assume the prime ministerial role when she was the acting prime minister while Rudd attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali.^[2]

Of Australian prime ministers, Gillard is the first woman, the first foreign-born since Billy Hughes,^[3] and the first who has never married.^[4]

Gillard has been a Labor Party member of the House of Representatives since the 1998 federal election. She represents the Division of Lalor, west of Melbourne.

Here is an article about her

Photo from Wikipedia. Photograph by Adam Carr; Cropped by Orangemonkey.