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Airdate: Julia Gillard: The Whole Truth

Nine adds its own political exclusive, but it isn't the first major interview the network is claiming.

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2014-09-19_1158I see you John Howard and I raise you Julia Gillard?

Nine’s exclusive interview with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, conducted by Ray Martin, will go to air next Tuesday night at the early time of 7pm.

Described as “an explosive, tell-all interview” it will replace A Current Affair for the evening (shouldn’t it have been Tracy Grimshaw not Ray?).

But Nine is also promoting it as her “first major interview” which is hardly the case.

ABC News 24 aired her interview with Anne Summers in September, while CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke to her last November about her “misogyny” speech and the difficulty that women leaders face, same-sex marriage, gun control, spying allegations and America’s health care debacle.

Nevertheless now the race is on to see who gets the bigger ratings and the more press coverage: Howard or Gillard?

Julia Gillard: The Whole Truth will reveal the real Julia Gillard, as Australia’s first female Prime Minister opens up as never before.

Gillard reveals the truth about the night she challenged Kevin Rudd for the leadership of the Labor Party and his treachery in leaking damaging stories about her.

She talks frankly about life in The Lodge with partner Tim Mathieson, and why she chose not to marry him. She speaks affectionately about her father and angrily attacks talkback radio host Alan Jones for his remark that her father “died of shame”. “Cruel and unforgiveable”, Gillard says.

Ray Martin asks Gillard about sexist remarks she claims were unfairly directed at her, including Germaine Greer’s comment that she had a “big arse”. The former Prime Minister is asked to justify her accusation that Tony Abbott is a misogynist.

Gillard claims she would have run a stronger campaign in the 2013 election, if she had remained the Labor leader, and that the result would have been no worse for Labor than it was.

Asked whether politics is a “mug’s game” Gillard says it’s not a job for people who seek publicity. “If you’d like to be a celebrity try out for Big Brother”, she says.

Julia Gillard: The Whole Truth 7pm Tuesday on Nine.

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  1. For viewers watching in areas of QLD, NSW, ACT and VIC where the WIN Network screens local WIN News bulletins and transmits the Nine signal, this interview should be screened on the GEM channel (Channnel 80 in most regional WIN markets) instead of A Current Affair at 7:30PM AEST. I would check your local TV Guides to confirm this as my information may be incorrect.

  2. Why wasn’t this done for 60 Minutes, it’s more suited for that.

    I would imagine there would be some things she couldn’t say while in Government that she can say now she’s out of it.

    I bet all the Libs & the haters are sharpening their knives in readiness.

    I can just imagine what Murdoch’s rags will say the next day.

  3. As with the ‘other’ interview….just their side of the story….old news…history is just that….history…done and dusted….
    Does not and will not change anything….and no …call my cynical….but I don’t think we humans ever learn.

  4. I have always found Julia Gillard compelling. The first woman to be Prime Minister is certainly someone with a story to tell. And her term as Prime Minister was certainly interesting. John Howard though holds no appeal for me at all.

  6. She really should’ve been facing Kevin Rudd the day she made the misogyny speech, no one undermined her and hated her like he did.

    I doubt this will really add anything, and it’s just another in a long line of bitter ex Labor leaders complaining to anyone who will listen about how hard done by they were, funny its more about Labor doing the kicking of them than the Liberals

    Keating, Latham, Rudd, and now Gillard, seen this movie before many times *yawn*

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