...Cynics, please don't comment...(Then I won't)!

Sorry Diver Dan but I must say that replacing Rudd with Bob Carr can only be a good thing. Rudd brought about his own demise and one of the planks was his statement that “ he was for a big Australia”. Bob Carr is a Patron of Population Australia and has written some brilliant articles on the perils of overpopulation, the single biggest for all of our climate change, peak oil and food and water shortages.
Good on Gillard for getting something right.

Richard, sorry but this is all a bit like my golf game. If there wasn’t so much slice, a better distance, a kinder bounce to the green and more roll on the green to the pin, I might just have got a birdie.

So Julia “stamped her authority as leader on something of moment” What, something momentous like another distraction?

“Many commentators have already noted this” Really? And these would be? Oh yes, I forgot, the progressive media.

And this gem, “especially if the polls start flowing Labor's way. That may be the ultimate result if Gillard now gets down to the real work.”

Getting down to the real work she can lift the polls? Or, if the electorates are prepared to forgive and forget all the stuff ups she can win? Just like my golf.

Actually there is more hope for my golf as I don’t have to get over these;

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
Solar panel rebate
Green Loan scheme
Green car scheme
GP super clinics
Child care centres
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
Wayne Swan
Making KRudd the Foreign Minister if he is so bad
Starting the Australia day riot
Lying on the 4 corners interview
Lying about Bob Carr’s appointment

I think you need to spend more time in Oz, just to stay in touch with local sentiment. Just a suggestion.

This article isn't actually about Carr, it is about Abbot.

Nevertheless, I suspect the appointment of Bob Carr will prove to be disappointment to all except Bob himself. Who must be chuckling all the way to the airport.

For a Party that used to line up such honest folk as John Button, Bill Hayden, John Dawkins, Barry Jones inter alia, Bob Carr stands out like a Munchkin playing for the All Blacks.

The man has more tickets on himself than the bride at a Greek wedding.

I'll simply reiterate:-

.#...Funny it is, the Labor Party are blinded to the obvious by a total focus on internal machinations. A very low priority is the interests and opinions of the voting supporters: Labor have become an isolated floating and disconnected wreck, in an ocean of disenfranchised ex-Labor faithful...#.

The 1% coalition is getting some flack about, taking orders from the top money earners in AU. Big Joe to is under scrutiny, also.
They have something like 70 billion $ shortfall. Joe says there is about 20,000 public servents in Canberra that can go, for a start.
Business is not happy about paying for the coalition maternity leave capped at 500,000 / year.