< Rudd crashing not crashing through >

Well Jo and Scott, I just hope to goodness you are right!

73-29, well done Labor Caucus.

I now hope that the public can realise why Rudd had to go. Was never up to it.

...Today; (If Rudd fails in his leadership challenge), will simply represent “but another day” in the continuum of the days of the Gillard "Annus Horribilis", the one more day Labor dismisses and ignores the will of its faithful followers, out there in the Greater land of the "Antipodeans"!

With the media cries of 'Live coverage from 5:30 AM' this leadership saga can now be accurately seen for what it really is: a sporting contest on the scale of the Melbourne Cup and the AFL Grand Final.
Politics as a blood sport. So not edifying!
I started to wonder what governments around the world might be thinking of us, but quickly decided not to go there.

29 to 73, he's gone and good riddance.

There is no comparison to Whitlam at all.

Rudd was a well known liability in Qld and should never have been encouraged to take the leadership.

The ALP have no people able to lead their party to beat Abbott, so it seems.

Which speaks volumes for the ALP, since Abbott is hardly a serious contender for running our nation.

Gillard might like to stop treating us all as if she were an infant school teacher and see if she can plumb her depths to look for any sign of humanity within.

So far, she appears as a total fraud, which is why she is so unpopular with the public.

It is her fault, and Swan's and the rest of the Rudd Cabinet, that the public had to suffer Rudd's manic behaviour.

But such horrors as the Malaysia Solution, Gillard's own Final Solution to appease the silliets of punters had nothing to do with Rudd.

Her own judgement and solutions to problems are not much chop.

premature with anouncing vote, actually 71-31.