As Julia Gillard tries to put in place a minority government, she must be hoping she can avoid the fate of two other prominent female political leaders: Kim Campbell in Canada and Tzipi Livni in Israel.
Kim Campbell lost office in November 1993, after just four months at the helm as Canada's first female prime minister. Tzipi Livni came tantalisingly close in 2008 to being able to form a coalition that would have made her Israel's second female prime minister (Golda Meir, who ruled from 1969 to 1974, was the first).
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