Julia Gillard's former Altona home looks surprisingly similar to the way she left it just over a year ago.

The buyers of the former prime minister's Medford Street dwelling have turned it into a Gillard shrine, even furnishing it with replica beds and couches mimicking those belonging to Ms Gillard when she lived in the house with partner Tim Mathieson.

The Wang family in their Altona home, in front of a photograph of Julia Gillard and Jian and Zheng Wang. Credit:Wayne Hawkins

Chinese mortgage broker Zheng Wang and his wife, Jian Wang, bought the three-bedroom brick house at auction in December, 2013, for $921,000 – about $250,000 more than its expected sale price.

Daughter Stephanie Wang, who in 2003, at age 16, became one of the youngest-ever female International Baccalaureates, was cleared for a job with Ms Gillard's ministerial office but gave up the chance in order to help her father in his business.