If only Gillard were Aboriginal, none of this would have happened Being a woman was just not being victim enough to save Gillard: Former prime minister Julia Gillard has said that she would have been treated differently as the nation's leader if she was indigenous, rather than a woman. In an interview with The Monthly, Ms Gillard suggested that derogatory remarks made about her would have caused more outrage if she was black. "I think some of the stuff about me, because it is about gender, gets glossed over more easily," she said. "If I was the first indigenous prime minister, and (Tony) Abbott had gone out and stood next to a sign that said, "Ditch the black bastard," I reckon that would be the end of a political career." What a crippling sense of victimhood. Still, it is nice to know that Gillard thinks that although we're sexist we're at least not racist.