Ms Gillard described the fire which hit the Coonabarabran area as "the perfect storm".
Barry O'Farrell, the state's Liberal leader and now its premier, will complicate life for Ms Gillard.
The Gillard government has anticipated a second mining boom, he says, and allocated spending in anticipation.
His resignation could harm Ms Gillard's slender majority, which relies on votes from independent MPs.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged to clamp down on the "457" temporary work visas.
Ms Gillard said a Royal Commission was the best way to investigate the claims.
After Ms Gillard deposed Mr Rudd as leader, she promised not to introduce a carbon tax.
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But Ms Gillard said it was "good", as long as you remembered to spread it thinly.
The season of protest will continue, and so, too, Julia Gillard's problems selling the carbon tax.
Prime Minister Gillard has ruled out a second referendum while Queen Elizabeth is still alive.
He, for his part, has called Ms Gillard's Labor Party ''masters of nasty personal politics''.
Unless Ms Gillard can dispel the clouds, the budget's political sunshine may prove short-lived.
Ms Gillard's best hope may be to focus on Australia's economic resilience in the global downturn.
Last December Ms Gillard's ruling Labor party overturned its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India.
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Both praised Ms Gillard's leadership and predicted Labor would win a third term in government.
Always a more popular figure within the party, Ms Gillard had the numbers to beat him.
Rob Oakeshott, one of them, says his deal is with Ms Gillard, not Labor.
He could resign from parliament, thus possibly triggering the fall of Ms Gillard's minority government.
Ms Gillard said Mr Rudd has not been in touch before his press conference.
When she dislodged Mr Rudd in June last year, Ms Gillard was a rising political star.
This then was a very personal rejection of Julia Gillard's first year in charge.
Ms Gillard was expected to visit Dunalley, the town worst affected by the fires.
"Thank you for that painting of women's roles in modern Australia, " said Ms Gillard, derisively.
Ms Gillard's 15 minutes of invective brought her more than 15 minutes of global fame.
Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard wrote to Rogge, officially asking for the moment of silence.
His diatribes against asylum-seekers in boats have also tied Ms Gillard in political knots.
When a lower house majority failed to emerge, Ms Gillard withheld the bill from a vote.
Yet Ms Gillard responded to the Malaysia plan's sinking by evoking a sense of crisis.
Ms Gillard's coalition government has a majority of just one seat in the lower house of parliament.
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