Now that a leadership spill looks inevitable in the Labor Caucus the question is which of the failed policies will she dump first:

- The BER rort
- The health plan cash splash
- The mining super tax

Secondly with the BER albatross hanging around her neck can she bring any credibility to the Labor party.

Finally will the centrist voters fall behind a far left wing union activist?

Will the centrist voters fall behind HER?

Well the question won't be that will it?

The question will become will we have our first female PM

That will score a LOT of votes, straight up...

The unions will back her up BIGTIME, the Left-Wing voters (who have been previously noted down as "right-wing" - but are generally union members, the backers of One-Nation) are the ones that are going to be taken back by Labor here.

FINALLY

YES

The Maroons have won again, the Left is in power and Labor looks set to take the next Election with a proper view to where the Country should go... Wonder how comfortable Swann is with Mr Shorten waiting in the wings?

Happy days

:D

Damn, watching this speech & the Sobbing Sod - does anyone else feel a little better now that we have a Prime Minister with Balls?

OMFG, I have never seen a "Prime Minister" sob during a speech, this the 'man' who likes to drive Public Servants to and over the edge with the horrific workload 'he' throws at them, who goes off 'his' head at people with very little cause?

So what do we have? A bully? With a very-loose grip on the truth? What's that Kevin? Training schools at ALL secondary schools? Yeah, how are the ones in the Northern Aboriginal Communities staffed and equipped?

Yeah, he said "sorry" to the stolen generation... How many children have died since then due to petrol sniffing? How many boys & girls have been sexually and physically assaulted on Aboriginal Communities since then? What precisely has this "SORRY" episode done for anybody?

As for having part of someone else inside him, he should feel quite comfortable with what happened today when Shorten put him over a barrel this morning... What a blouse, I'm sorry, but I'll say it

Just listened to Julia's acceptance speach.

I must say, it filled me with as much confidence as did the one I listened to from our Queensland Anna, when she was anointed.

I see that Beattie has endorsed Julia too. That is not a good omen.

Perhaps we need to reflect on our democratic principles? If, as seems likely, the AWU has exerted significant influence on this spill, we need to think about the 15% of the non government sector that is represented by this “influence”. This would translate, in representation terms, to perhaps 5% of voters.

If this reflects the power to dismiss our elected PM, what does this say about the power to influence policy?

The power exhibited by the AWU is only exceeded by its arrogance. I’m not a supporter of KR however; I am a supporter of majority electoral representation. How will it make any difference if JG wins the next election? Will her supporting power base change its spots?