Maxine McKew offered some interesting background to Gillard in the Age on Saturday. It seems that Gillard was plotting against Rudd from the 2007 election and her and Swan forced him into dropping the ETS.

Labor;...On a spaceship to nowhere!

...7.500 households in Queensland are without power as a consequence of "Non Payment of Account": Multiplied by seven states and territories is 52,500 households without power in Australia. Multiplied by the two parent and two children per household average, 220,000 Australians are disconnected from the power grid as a consequence of NPA.

...Obviously the above group are not assisted by the myth of full employment, and an unhelpful carbon tax.

...Rudd was the voters choice for leadership of the party; Gillard again demonstrates she is totally out of touch with the electorate, and will continue now, with her ignorant contribution of "dire consequences" to too many of them.

Who’re you callin a moron Ms Shepherd??
Ludwig,
the ones who had to count twice to get 71-31.

Blame the carbon tax for everything even though it doesn't come into effect till july.
The leadership is not a popularity contest.
I go on economy results, and AU is doing very well, even with the negative push from the opposition.
Great leaps in infrastructure are underway. In 2007 we were stagnating.
When the opposition eventually get some policies together then the contest for polling can begin, until then it is very one sided.

579, until you mentioned the “great leaps” and “economic results”, I must confess I’d not quite thought of the ALP in those terms. Like so many Australians as indicated by the polls, I seem to have been diverted by other issues.

Grocery watch
Fuel watch
Watering down of border protection laws
Boat people living in Hotels
Climate Change Citizens assembly
BER
Pink Batts
$900 cheques
Live cattle trade to Indonesia
East timor solution
Malaysia solution
Knifing a first term PM
20/20 Summit
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Carbon Tax
Cash for clunkers
Minimum Renewable Energy Targets
Solar panel rebate
Green Loan scheme
Green car scheme
GP super clinics
Child care centre’s
Kevin Rudd being able to dole out $8bn in foreign aid annually
Computers for every school child
Indigenous health
Health rebate
Super Profits resource tax
Mineral Rent Resource Tax
Proposed Hospital Funding overhaul
Set top boxes for pensioners
Saying Sorry
Murdoch Press Media review
Giving Holden a bailout and a week later Holden workers get a 22% pay increase
Abolishment of the ABCC
Australian Television Network tender
NBN - $60bn and counting
$220bn national debt
Borrowing $112m per day
Budget surplus smoke & mirrors
Craig Thomson/Williams
Wayne Swan
Making KRudd the Foreign Minister if he is so bad
Indigenous Intervention
Marriage Act
Private Health Rebates
Starting the Australia day riot
Lying on the 4 corners interview

Nice of you to pop back to planet Earth occasionally just to let us all know how good things are on planet ALP.

For infrequent interplanetary visitors such as you we have allocated a large supply of “reality tablets”. These are available from “www.what is it you just don’t get.com”.

These tablets are available free if you can show that your brain cell count is below 580. At 579 you’re just in, lucky you

I did say infrastructure, I am not sure what your list proves. We have the greatest economy for quite some years. Employment at an all time low. You have nothing to grumble about.
The weakling abbott is in denial, as usual. Try understanding why our economy is so great.