Vegemite sandwich thrown at julia gillard biography

  • Earlier this month, someone hurled a sandwich slathered in Vegemite, the yeast extract that's Australia's national spread, at the prime minister.
  • The moment Vegemite sandwich was thrown at Australia's prime minister as she was mobbed by schoolchildren.
  • Earlier this month a student in Logan, south of Brisbane, was suspended for throwing a vegemite sandwich at Ms Gillard.

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    Julia Gillard: From first kvinna PM to deposed leader

    Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister in the bloodless coup that saw Kevin Rudd deposed. Three years and two days later, she fell to the same man.

    In between she led Labor to an election in August, 2010 which resulted in a hung parliament. The Greens supported Ms Gillard, but it took 17 days for the cross-benchers to decide between Ms Gillard and motstånd leader Tony Abbott.

    Key laws passed beneath Gillard

    • National Broadband Network
    • Carbon tax
    • Plain packaging for cigarettes
    • Minerals Resource Rent Tax
    • National disability insurance scheme, DisabilityCare
    • Gonski school funding reforms
    • The Gillard Government also established a royal kommission into child abuse

    When Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott threw their lot in with Labor, Ms Gillard was given a minority Government to lead.

    The motstånd mounted a furious campaign against Ms Gillard from the beginning of Australia’s 43rd parliament and man

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    The kid who lobbed a sandwich at the PM should be charged. Seriously.

     

     

    By KATE HUNTER

    So a kid chucked a Vegemite sanger at the Prime Minister yesterday.

    Breakfast radio announcers are sniggering about it, kids are giggling, and the adults who were there said it was just, ‘kids being kids’ and a bit of childish ‘high jinx.’

    WHAT?

    This is our Prime Minister and it doesn’t matter if you don’t like her, if you don’t approve of her policies, if your parents think she’s the worst thing to happen to the country since Sylvania Waters, you show respect. You don’t throw sandwiches. If you don’t like that she’s visiting your school, go to the library, the gym, the toilet. Demonstrate your disapproval with your absence. It’s cooler.

    One friend I spoke to shared my outrage, but only to a degree. She said, ‘It’s just manners. You don’t throw sandwiches at anyone. It’s equally bad to throw one at your sister.’

    I disagree. If my son chucked food at his sister, I’d be cranky,

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    Incoming! The moment Vegemite sandwich was thrown at Australia's prime minister as she was mobbed by schoolchildren

    • Julia Gillard was at Marsden High School, south of Brisbane, for Biggest Morning Tea event
    • Alleged sandwich thrower, student Kyle Thomson, 16, has been suspended for 15 days

    By RICHARD SEARS

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    In Iraq, they throw shoes at presidents - but in Australia today, the weapon of choice was a sandwich when it was hurled at prime minister Julia Gillard by a school student when she was mobbed by children.

    Ms Gillard was also on the receiving end of teenagers' cat calls and boos, with several shouting 'Loser'.

    The missile - believed to be a Vegemite sandwich - didn't actually hit the British-born Labour leader but it landed with a plop on the ground near her when she was mobbed by the students in Queensland.

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    The missile - believed to contain Vegemite - didn't hit Labour leader Julia Gillard but it landed with a plop on t

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