"History vindicated Whitlam..."

Anyone who believes that Whitlam has been 'vindicated' by history is clearly living in a fantasy world already. No doubt Gillard will feature there as a Disney princess, feisty yet vulnerable, who could have saved us all with her magic powers had her wicked step-Rudd not intervened.

Well let's face it, there was a lot of crap written, coupled to the most vicious, ditch the witch, witch hunt ever mounted against the nation's PM; along with regime change, mounted by a major publication empire's unprecedented dirt digging campaign; a campaign compounded by Dr No!
Who now cries foul, whenever he has to take some of his own medicine.
I think history will be a lot kinder to her, than her professionally determined detractors, who left no stone unturned to rewrite history, and the so called night of the long knives!
If Gillard had been the entirely ruthless, self serving, power hungry pollie she was made out to be, (another Rudd?) she should have simply called a spill, which may well of made micro managing, (didn't want to ever go home to the wifie?) workaholic (butching it up?) redoubtable religious Rudd's fragile emotional/mental condition, into one were he was permanently broken?
Dr No seemingly believes his own propaganda, and in the right to rule by the privileged classes, and now is busy busy beavering away at destroying Gillard's legacy! Gonkski!?
While I disagreed with much of her policy paradigms, I've always believed in the fair go!
And lets face it, there was very little of that on display, even from her own side, when she saved the government for labor, by simply being one of the smartest political operators, and negotiator par excellence, they'd had in many a year! [And but for the spilling of cabinet confidentiality, (a "woman" scorned?) would have romped in on a landslide!?]
And had she been a bloke, forever eulogized for her contribution!
And in the fullness of time, will likely be eulogized for her misogyny speech, which went viral and around the world; and gave it goosebumps, as one of the most passionately powerful speeches the "REAL" Julia ever gave!
Rhrosty

History will be a lot kinder to ex PM Gillard than it will be to the bunch of war mongering liars & slanderers @ NEWS LTD,Howard,Costello & stunt boy Abbott who all turned out to be bigger liars than Gillard ever was.
Abbott is not even bright enough to learn from recent history with the IRAQ disaster, I suppose stupid is as stupid does with that fool

sums up the leftist mentality. Greatest achievements Gonski and Disability reform. The problem is that their was no money left to implement any of this stuff. If they had not had been so incompetent in giving millions/billions away, turning a healthy surplus into an out of control deficit then you might have been able to find something worthwhile. Whether it was pink bats, NBN, Green religous schemes, promises of surplus's every year, border control (out of control) the incompetence and waste was clear for all to see.

Self delusion is a dreadful thing. It can get people actually believing garbage like this. That this garbage can come from an arts student shows why the arts faculties should be closed down in our universities, & their staff consigned to doing something more useful. Playing tiddlywinks comes to mind, where at least they could do less harm.

Yes some fools do actually admire that impractical dreamer Whitlam. How the same people can admire the loathsome, vicious Gillard I really can't understand. I guess tribalism can be the only answer.

Perhaps Whitlam is to blame for Gillard. After all some time after that airy fairy fool, they went to a Latham, looking for toughness, surely the male equivalent of Gillard, as a reaction.

I suppose we can only treat this bit of fluff as an over the top application for a nice job in the public service, once Labor get back in power. God help us, but it probably will happen.

Of course the Witch banner was wrong, it should have been "Dump the Dope", Witches were usually canny, not unmitigated incompetents. Of course the Left is never rude to Abbott, the unending series of violent hate filled rants stuck to the bins in Newtown (almost right) is just my imagination. The latest involves a French humanitarian invention, Madam guillotine, at least it is not violence against any women.

Gillard's greatest achievement was to eclipse Whitlam as Australia's worst Prime Minister, that's it.

The only true comment that I can fairly make, apropos Ms GILLARD and her peculiar style of Prime Ministership - She was by far the worst political leader this country has ever seen in my living memory, and I'm seventy five years of age.

the worst political leader this country has ever seen
o sung wu,
Not only that but also the most moronous supporters. The worst part ? The supporters are still around continuing to destabilise anything that makes sense.

You are so so correct INDIVIDUAL, and as you quite rightly say, her supporters are still out there and wilfully wrecking just about everything the LNP are trying to do. Not much point winning an election when you've got these lunatic Greens, and other loose cannons in the Senate, the likes of that hatred filled WILKIE Ind., who's so smitten with feelings of loathing and revenge he's do anything to injure the LNP brand. Some of my friends have said, he should've been charged with.......? I'll let it go for the moment, as I've no wish to be confronted with a libellous writ at my tender age ?

Speaking of others within the Senate who are great 'spoilers' for good government, many of whom have extreme difficulty trying to remain perspicuous and reasonably compos mentis, whenever parliament is sitting, what's her name INDIVIDUAL ? ...the 'Palmer United Party' lady, she really struggles to remain relevant and stable ? She wants to find a husband apparently, according to an ABC Radio interview, but she does have some rather unusual demands in the genitalia region ? Sounds like she's just the deal for a 'thinking Senator' ? God help us all, what a 'plurry' mess !

Given the way history looks at the achievements of the Whitlam Government: socialised medicine, ending the involvement in Vietnam, cutting university tuition, ending the draft, and a host more that have had a profound influence on the way Australia operates today, they seem happy to forget the dysfunctional way the Government operated.

McMahon by comparison is remembered solely for Sonia and losing an election.

I rather suspect that history will be kinder to the Gillard Government than the press was during its term

Agronomist if the press are kinder to Gillard in future, it will only be because like this author, they are blinded by their left leaning politics.

I like what Michael Kroger once said when comparing Whitlam with Gillard/Ruud, 'Whitlam may have been a distaster but at least he believed in something. This mob don't believe in anything.' I have to admit, I never thought I'd see such crass opportunistic government in Australia. I thought that sort of thing only happened in third world tin pot dictatorships. When Rudd was elected, who could have predicted that Labor would trash our political system and spend our children's inheritance so comprehensively and then have so little to show for it.
Kim Beasely Snr's comment about modern Labor being filled with the dregs of the middle class comes to mind. If only we were so lucky. Kroger was right. Narcisstic, nihilistic, opportunists is more to the point.

LOL!...

Never fear, you guys.

When Abbott finally hangs up his cape, his spandex budgies and his fake tan - future historians will eventually be able to decipher the monogram secretly embroidered in the corner of his mask.

"SB" stands for "Stunt Boy"

(At least Batman was a satire - unfortunately for us, Abbott's posturing is for real)

u don't surprise Poirot with your obbessive abbottphobia.

ps the article is on Gillard not Abbott.

"Government effectiveness is measured by opinion polls and elections but these don't really reveal anything specific. Good indicators of a working government are public health and economy. However, both of these indicators are not entirely under the influence of the government.

One way to evaluate a government's effectiveness is looking at legislation. Legislation provides a good quantitative measure of a government's performance along with the political party and prime minister. A politician who passes a lot of laws may be considered to be doing his or her job well".

On this measure, Gillard passed more legislation than any other PM.

This was despite a hung Parliament, constant personal attacks and the most hostile and distorted media since Murdoch's personal vendetta against Whitlam.

Abbott's performance will be seen as little more than a series of lies, broken promises and stunts.