Julia Gillard has been confronted by a stranded Australian unable to get home as a result of the restrictions on how many citizens can enter per week, during an appearance in London.

The former Prime Minister was speaking to an exclusive audience for the Britain-Australia Society at the Royal Over-Seas League with another former prime minister Alexander Downer, about her work on gender and leadership which she completed in Kings collages.

Julia Gillard responded by saying she does not dabble in domestic politics and that  she has no “pressing humanitarian need to return” home and that she  had delayed her travel back so as not to displace a person in more need from being able to secure a flight and scarce quarantine spot.