murdoch says i come from the city that gave julia gillard to the world. [laughter] i want to say in closing first we are honored and happy to have julia is a colic at brookings and second she will be signing books and i just want to read a passage that actually goes back. there's a wonderful passage right at the beginning of the book where julia introduces it and she says the taste of politics is always bittersweet because the best and worst of things are often inextricably woven together. i've endeavored to convey the complexity of the flavor but for me even in the most difficult of times the ability to do things i so passionately believed would make our nation stronger and fair was always the most intense. thank you so much. [applause]

gillard. she said please, please, please, call me julia. in short order were talking about the pool in australia, but we could all visit and i'm still on the list. i am not sure i can relate to duck that is a work expense, but working on it. but she has been very warm, very generous with your time come with me personally but with every member of my team, talking to the interns, research assistants, two senior executive fellows around the world. so it is a wonderful pleasure and honor to have her in the perkins family. with that, i know i also wanted to stay not only with brookings at the pleasure, but also a great pleasure for global education community because not too long ago she joined as the chair of the board of the global partnership for education. and the audience and we didn't -- i didn't get the notes from you before hand, but i'm sure you would at all of these things and i know the entire global education community is very happy to have you in a leadership role in this sector. so with that, over to you, julia. >> thank you very mu

julia gillard sat in a dark suit nodding. what in heck was all that like? [laughter] >> thank you for that very expensive question. on this gender bit, i've tried to unpack it and i tried to get real-world examples because i did actually, some of the silly things about women and appearance. and the bligh, the premier of queensland did a remarkable job during the floods in any political leader, man, woman from any political party standing next to would've come off second base because she was just putting in a miraculous performance leading her state. but the fact that all of that ended up defaulting and what we were wearing i think says something about how women are judged. so i put that in there because a bit like the incident i put in there of my first overseas trip we visit our troops in afghanistan, i've been with him to secretary-general of nato. literally our troops are fighting and dying in afghanistan and the reporters at a meeting of australia ready, julia gillard wearing a white jacket and black pants is greeted by the secretary-general of nato. no

[inaudible conversations] julia gillard is the first female prime minister of australia. she talks about her life and her experience in an office. speaking of the brookings institution in washington d.c., this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> wonderful, good morning everybody. i'm rebecca winthrop the director of the center for the universe adult education at the brookings institution. it's my great pleasure to

i come from the city that gave julia gillard to the world. [laughter] i want to say in closing first we are honored and happy to have julia is a colic at brookings and second she will be signing books and i just want to read a passage that actually goes back. there's a wonderful passage right at the beginning of the book where julia introduces it and she says the taste of politics is always bittersweet because the best and worst of things are often inextricably woven together. i've endeavored to convey the complexity of the flavor but for me even in the most difficult of times the ability to do things i so passionately believed would make our nation stronger and fair was always the most intense. thank you so much. [applause] b many of the people who became infected with ebola in this outbreak couldn't even remember making any mistakes at all. they thought the decontamination process was precise but they got ebola anyway. in any event, one day humarr khan did not come to work and they found out that he was keeping himself at home. he had isolat