Female, redhead, atheist prime minister
And that's not all:
"Australia has had 26 previous prime ministers - mostly middle-class married white men. Gillard breaks that mould emphatically: a foreign-born (she is the Welsh-born daughter of working-class migrants), unmarried, childless woman of 48 whose nominal political home is the far left. She's an atheist, whereas Rudd thanked God in his parting speech."
And almost by accident, wasn't really trying for PM.
"Australia has had 26 previous prime ministers - mostly middle-class married white men. Gillard breaks that mould emphatically: a foreign-born (she is the Welsh-born daughter of working-class migrants), unmarried, childless woman of 48 whose nominal political home is the far left. She's an atheist, whereas Rudd thanked God in his parting speech."
And almost by accident, wasn't really trying for PM.