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Australia’s Gillard told Obama it’s hard being her

AUSTRALIA: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reportedly told US President Barack Obama it is hard being a single, atheist, female leader as support for her slumped in a new poll Monday.

Gillard, who became the country’s first woman prime minister in June 2010, has struggled for more than a year and the latest Nielsen poll shows her Labor Party crashing seven percent to 27 percent as voters’ first choice.

The poll of 1,400 voters published in The Sydney Morning Herald showed the conservative opposition would score a thumping win should an election be held now -- winning 57 percent of the overall vote next to Labor’s 43 percent.

According to the Herald, Gillard has privately conceded it is hard to be in her position, reportedly questioning Obama on which of them had the tougher role -- the African-American president or the unwed woman prime minister.

“I’m good mates with Barack Obama,” Gillard was quoted as telling a recent private fundraising event in Sydney.

“I tell him, ‘You think it’s tough being African-American? Try being me. Try being an atheist, childless, single woman as prime minister’.” Gillard reportedly told the gathering of cabinet members and business people that despite the current low support for Labor, her minority government -- held together with the help of two independent lawmakers -- was defying expectations.

“If you are judging by normal political rules, it’s impossible to explain how I became prime minister,” the newspaper said Gillard told the function.

AFP

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