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Et tu, Julia : Comments

By Matthew Lilley, published 29/6/2010

All Julia Gillard did for Australian women last week was prove that she can connive, lie, backstab and bitch with the best of them.

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This is ridiculous. Julia G. was not elected by some "faceless mafiso" but by the parliamentary labor caucus, the whole 112 members of it. The Australian constitution has no provision for direct election of a Prime Minister. He/she is elected from the elected Labor members of Parliament to be their leader and, ipso facto, the Prime Minister. These people elect and these same people "unelect" their leader/Prime Minister.
Posted by Gorufus, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:44:23 AM
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We did not vote for the faceless party. We have voted for the party with patricular leaders were Gillard was proposed just Deputy PM. We have vote for the party which had offered that Kevin Rudd to be Prime Minister. That is why Labor has won. Rudd was precondition to winning. But Gillard so much wanted the job, that conned to pretend loyal so to come to trust, organised bullying and then discarded nation's choice.
Who would vote for Labor if Gillard is running for the government where it is proven that she could not care less about the people of Australia?
Posted by Tatiana, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:01:15 PM
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What a refreshing take on recent events, imbued with a thorough understanding of the workings of Australia's system of government and a realsitic understanding of modern political power machinations. Oh wait - it was the exact opposite ... cliched, boring and naive.
Posted by danielm, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 12:31:36 PM
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Of course, we're all entitled to hold an opinion about things, so I expect people will vent their spleen at the polls if they really care. What happened last week was tawdry and cruel but also an acknowledged part of the "game". Democracy was not damaged one iota. The reputation of some MPs and some ALP hacks perhaps, brand damage for the ALP for sure but democracy came through with flying colours.
Posted by bitey, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 2:27:59 PM
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Careful tory boy your misogyny and fear of women is showing.
Posted by mikk, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 2:31:26 PM
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It's all happened so quickly that many of us
are still quite stunned. However, probably by the
time the election rolls around, people will
be more concerned with who can meet their needs,
and how well they can do the job, than how they
got into power.

Politics is not an even playing field - it's a
world in which only the tough seem to survive.
Now it's up to Julia Gillard to prove to Australia
that she can give the country much more than the
man she's deposed.

Kevin Rudd is being blamed for so many things.
However, it was Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan who
wanted the Emissions Trading Scheme to be place "on hold,"
and Kevin Rudd finally complied with their wishes.
He was also persuded to change his tactic on asylum seekers,
and he even met with the directors of the mining companies
and indicated that he was open to "negotiation." And let's
not forget that the most recent polls also
showed that Kevin Rudd was still the preferred Prime
Minister, yet the Labor Party factions backed by
Gillard and Swan, tell us that Kevin Rudd had "lost his
way." Despite the fact that they are following precisely
in Rudd's footsteps - and doing that which he had started
to do but was not allowed to finish. If Ms Gillard is all
about negotiation and team work, why did so few decide
for the many - the course of action that was taken?
Many Labor MPs did not have a clue as to what was really
happening and why?

I guess we'll have to wait and see in what direction
the new leadership will take us, and how really different will
it be from what the previous PM was doing.

Ms Gillard told us it was, "A good day for red-heads."
The question that needs to be answered though is,
"Was it a good day for Australia?"

We'll have to wait and see.
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 2:43:28 PM
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