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Julia not darling of Australians

June 24, 2013 01:24 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:34 pm IST - CANBERRA, Australia

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Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard, left, arrives at a press conference with Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan to make a statement to the media after a leadership ballot in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Gillard remains Australia's prime minister after she threw her job open to a leadership ballot but no one from the government was willing to run against her. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Australia's prime minister Julia Gillard, left, arrives at a press conference with Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan to make a statement to the media after a leadership ballot in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Gillard remains Australia's prime minister after she threw her job open to a leadership ballot but no one from the government was willing to run against her. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is spending her third anniversary in office resisting pressure from colleagues to open her job to a ballot.

An opinion poll published on Monday suggests the ruling centre-left Labour Party is headed for a devastating defeat at elections set for Sept. 14. Successive polls suggest Labour would be more popular with voters with Ms Gillard’s predecessor Kevin Rudd as leader.

She ousted Mr Rudd in an internal party coup on July 24, 2010. Now many in government want him back.

Ms Gillard says she will neither quit nor put her leadership to a vote of government lawmakers.

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