Julia Gillard, a New York photographer, receives countless emails from people thinking she's the PM Julia Gillard (centre), 35, is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She constantly receives emails intended for Prime Minister Julia Gillard from confused people who stumble across her website. JULIA Gillard is a "hipster" glasses wearing redhead who's constantly being questioned by concerned Australian citizens. She's also a professional photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. In a case of mistaken identity that's lasted since PM Gillard was sworn in in June 2010, Ms Gillard, 35, has received a constant flow of emails from confused Aussies stumbling across her website, www.juliagillard.com. "I'm not sick of them, I think they are so funny, I kind of love getting them," she said. I think I get just about as many nice notes from people who happen upon my website and stay to take a look at my pictures even after they realise that I am not the PM as I do from people who think I am her. I love both kinds of notes. Julia Gillard labels the PM's misogyny speech in Parliament last year as a high point. Ms Gillard, who describes herself as a "street photographer," said she had known nothing about Australian politics before learning about her doppelganger through a friend in the mid 2000s, when Gillard was shadow health minister. "Periodically I would check in to see what she was up to and then all of the sudden, she was PM and everyone had something to say about her," she said. Most of the emails she gets are friendly and praise-filled; one compliments her on her "hard line stance," while another reads: "Your a breath of air (sic). Keep up your good work and long may you do this. She now says she's following the Prime Ministerial race with interest, citing the PM's famous "misogyny speech" as a high point of the last 12 months. I have begun to learn more about Abbott over the years. There are a lot of opinions out there on both him and the PM, seems like people in Australia feel very strongly about both of these politicians," she said. My female coworkers and I have watched (the misogyny speech) several times, cheering Gillard on as she unloads on a smirking Abbott - what theatre. Finances don't allow it, she says, but the photographer would love to make her first trip down under this year to shoot the election, and maybe meet her Prime Ministerial namesake. "I can't imagine anything better than photographing the build up to the election in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, I have heard that it is set to be quite the contest," she said. Photographer Julia Gillard on PM Julia Gillard On the PM's new glasses: "I love them! They are quite sharp. I was never able to stand wearing contacts myself, glasses are definitely the way to go. On opposition leader Tony Abbott: "Abbott's disbelief in climate change, his statements that abortion is 'an easy way out' and his opposition to gay marriage are unsettling." On meeting the PM: "I might ask her about the origin of her name - our name- which is French. I know that she was born in Wales and so I wonder about her French roots. I would also ask what it is like to be the first woman to be Prime Minister.