Nah, she's just trying to park the issue for a bit.
Not quite a storm in a teacup, but its certainly exercised the attention of some more than you'd think necessary. Forest for the trees mode won't give a voter an overview that puts the thing in context.
Gillard's having to do a fair bit on the run, but I feel she's done a bit better the last couple of days- the Laurie Hoax is hot air to distract and does nothing for the public in trying to understand the suite of issues , but people are learning to peer through the haze.

send it to a committee, set up a forum, find the consensus view. All labor methods for avoiding the subject. Well you can hardly wonder why, we vote them into government with a mandate to introduce an ETS, then when the senate (that unrepresentative swill) overturn it in a bloody coup for the lib's we are so resolute we give them the "all clear" by crashing the polls in favour of an ignorant bigot sorry new liberal leader. Yes we get what we deserve, at this point we deserve a procrastinating government with no direction and even less will as this is how we as an electorate are behaving.
All a bit strong? well look at it this way. We all like to say how labor have run up a debt for our children to avoid the GFC. Well the same "ME" generation are happy to commit future generations to a waste land so that they don't have to make any sacrifices for their future children and grandchildren. Who is to care if the resources run out, what of a deteriorating environment, atmosphere and eco-system?
Cornflower, Yes an appalling interview by Bob, But an even more appalling interview. The interviewer clearly saw some cheap ground to be made out of ignoring the way our whole stuffed up preference system works in the senate. Still no excuse for Bob not to realise that the labor party had distanced itself from what it stood for in the climate change debate. After all he help achieve it.

Paul, it would appear that a few more people are starting to see through the haze, seeing the "real" Julia, & not liking what they see.

I know I like her less, the more I see of her, in fact it has not taken too much exposure of her for me to find her very wanting. The polls seem to be saying I have a few mates there.