Thank you, Kevin! On the top of all the improvements you have made in this country, it seems that we shall also remember you as the last democratically elected Prime Minister.
With this bloody execution of the choice of the nation, personally, I fell robed of my civil rights and assurance in the future. Should we in future vote for party, not for the person? There is no guarantee now that the person you voted for would continue to be on the position.
Such erosion of the democratic future!
I should also add that after ‘killing’ lawfully elected Prime Minister, labor might not be governing party in a few months. They also ‘killed’ the great leader who has managed to finally bring the party from opposition.
What was this rotation for? Deputy Prime Minister could use her great negotiation skills on her position for her Party and for Her Job as a Deputy. That would be seen that new Prime Minister has fought for the job (even for couple of months) just because she could not have it through next federal elections and as so - never.
Thank you, Kevin! You have respected nation opinion when come to be Prime Minister.

Rudd made two fundamentally terrible mistakes. On all the talkback radio that I've been listening to lately, only one of these has been mentioned, and then only fleetingly, with the other one seemingly escaping everyone's attention.

The one that I heard mentioned was the weakening of Australia's border protection policy. This was an insane thing for Rudd to do. The issue of asylum seekers, people-smuggling and mandatory detention had been solved. It was bleedingly obvious what would happen if Howard's policy was weakened.

If Rudd had wanted to improve Australia's humanitarian input and record on refugees, then he could have significantly increased the financial assistance for refugees through UN programs and boosted our national intake. The approach he took just boggles my mind.

Secondly, and much more significantly, Rudd greatly boosted our immigration rate as soon as he got into office, to record high levels, without any mandate or even a mention in the election campaign.

There should have been enormous outrage over this, big enough to see him forced to reverse the policy or get booted out after no more than three months in office.

The last thing we need in this country is massive population growth, that will both increase problems in our already badly growth-stressed capital cities, cause smaller centres to suffer similar problems, cause new centres to be developed, and in general just completely blow out any chance of us living in balance with our resource base and environment.

Rudd's 'Big Australia' was an abomination.

I'm glad to see the back of him. But it is most unfortunate that his biggest mistakes are not recognised as such, and the same old policies will continue under Gillard.

People whooping about the ‘first woman Prime Minister’ might very well be celebrating prematurely, as they did with the totally disgraced and discarded Kevin Rudd. All that has happened is that a male monkey has been replaced with a female monkey. After all, Gillard was Deputy Prime Minister, seen most nights on TV defending EVERYTHING Rudd did. She is responsibly for the BER fiasco, in her own right, and she is firmly to the Left of everything. She, and all of the others, including Wayne Swan, now, amazingly, the Deputy PM, who plotted against Rudd, sat back and did not say boo as Rudd went his arrogant, merry way isolating everyone and ruining everything, as the Australian Labor Party now belatedly admits.

Gillard is not to be trusted. The problem is, that she will have time to call an election while still in a honeymoon period and, thanks to all the girls who think that they have certain rights just because they are girls, she has a fair chance of rescuing her government – even getting it re-elected.

The girlie brigade needs to realise that the only thing that their gender can do, simply because of their gender, is re-produce. And, how many of them are old enough to remember the harridan, Margaret Thatcher: super-feminine down to pearls, twin-sets and perms. Even to us conservatives, Maggie was the most vicious, inhumane old trout since Bodieaca.

It’s doubtful that sexist Australian females would go for a Thatcher, but they don’t seem to realise that females, just like males, should not be lauded simply by dint of gender.

Of course, the plotters in the ALP are using this feminine weakness by elevating Gillard, in line with the growing feminisation and leftism of society. They are using the blind it’s-about-time-women-took-over sentiment rife in Western society.

Now the self-styled “expert” consultant, Joanne Jacobs (did she go to ‘expert school’?) spent only a paragraph on Julia- adoration, but there’s little to say about Kevin Rudd, except, was there another Kevin Rudd we didn’t know?

Ludwig, "Secondly, and much more significantly, Rudd greatly boosted our immigration rate as soon as he got into office, to record high levels, without any mandate or even a mention in the election campaign."

I believe you are right, Mr Rudd crashed on regardless without a mandate for his 'Big Australia'. This along with support of diversity for the sake of diversity, contributed significantly to his dramatic slide in popularity.

These issues tie in with Mr Rudd's apparent casualness about border protection.

It is interesting that surveys of political opinion have not asked about immigration policy and overpopulation, however that doesn't mean that voters have forgotten, or will forget as hoped by Abbott as well.

Well, if ever anyone needed proof that you can fool some of the people, all of the time, there it is.

LUGWIG says:

//Rudd greatly boosted our immigration rate as soon as he got into office, to record high levels, without any mandate or even a mention in the election campaign.//

See

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html

and....*drum roll*....now you know WHY he did it!

Anyone who believes "Immigration" is "not" about votes.. new material and pandering to old loyalties (migrant vote?) lives in a very wierd twighlight zone.