FED: Attention on Therese's fashion is "silly": Gillard

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2008
FED: Attention on Therese's fashion is "silly": Gillard

CANBERRA, April 11 AAP - Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says media focus on Therese
Rein's wardrobe is a little bit silly.

Ms Rein, wife of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has been the target of sniping from so-called
fashion experts while accompanying her husband on his 18 day world tour.

Ms Gillard, often critiqued for her changing hairstyles, says people should be judged
on their contributions not their fashion.

"It all gets a little bit silly, whether it's Therese (Rein) or other women in public
life," Ms Gillard told the Fairfax Radio Network.

"I'd like to think that people get value for their accomplishments and their character,
more than the colour of what they're wearing that day.

"That is a hundredth-order question compared with the contributions that people make
and Therese Rein is someone who has made a considerable contribution in her own right."

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