It would be as well to suspend judgment until the results of the Victorian police investigation into the AWU scandal is completed. Should the lady in question be charged as solicitor to both Bruce Wilson and the AWU, then we must wait further for the decision of the courts.

The history writtten by labour barnacles in the leftist dominated media will rate Julia a better PM than Chifley.

Real historians will be objective and will colour their history with the written and oral contemperatenous commentaries of her peers. And that won't be at all flattering.

It will indeed be interesting to see how history
will judge Julia Gillard. The historian can establish
that an act took place on a certain day, but this, by
historical standards constitutes only chronology.
The moment that the historian begins to look critically
at circumstances, context, or any other considerations,
the product becomes unacceptable for one or another
camp of readers.
Interesting times ahead.

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-the-pms-gender-took-over-the-agenda-20130624-2oson.html

http://voicelessvictim.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/julia-gillards-legacy-lives-on-in-historic-royal-commission/

One can only wonder whether Mr Abbott would have had the courage to
initiate the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in institutional
settings due to his close religious affiliations, especially with
Cardinal Pell? The former PM did take this responsibility - and that's
quite a legacy in itself.

The real question is whether Gillard did anything that couldn't or wouldn't have been done by any halfway competent person in the same position. You don't get points for doing the obvious. But you DO lose points for NOT doing the obvious -- like holding a Republic referendum, legalising gay marriage and holding off on a carbon tax until there was actual evidence that it would do anyone any good whatsoever.

The irony is that Gillard actually did govern well - good cabinet process and consultation, and a well managed minority government that delivered on important reforms: but lousy communications and let down by her media advisers. Rudd is an egomaniac, can't govern for nuts but somehow connects with the community. Go figure. Hopefully history will teat Julia Gillard kindly and fairly.

her legacy was being stabbed by the sisterhood after serving less than a term. Says more about the sisterhood than anything else. Very few principles but much rhetoric about their superiority. Hopefully the Liberals will promote on ability rather than the failed quota system.