Media and politics are two professional spheres that depend on each other in an operative manner. Though gender plays a major role in the play for power, as the Australian mass media encourages the downfall of prominent women in our nation’s political sphere, and this in turn creates the issue that female political leaders must put in additional effort when it comes to winning the affections of the average Australian voter. The primary example which will be examined in this essay is former prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, and how she initiated the first real conversation cantering around gender in Australian politics. Evidence will be reviewed and analysed through the forms of print journalism stories, scholarly articles, statistics
