DON Farrell told the US embassy a year before the coup that Julia Gillard was "campaigning for the leadership", WikiLeaks cables reveal.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/julia-gillard-after-top-job-a-year-before-coup-wikileaks/story-fn59niix-1225972416553

The revelation challenges the ALP's version of events surrounding the leadership challenge - that a reluctant Ms Gillard was drafted by her caucus colleagues at the 11th hour to stand as a candidate against Mr Rudd, whose leadership had become terminal as public support was lost. A WikiLeaks cable names Senator Farrell as telling US embassy staff in June last year Ms Gillard was trying to knock off Mr Rudd.

This is direct proof that Julia Gillard and the Labor party stood up in front of the Australian people and told a bald faced lie. That she is preparing to break a written agreement with the miners, and back flip over the carbon tax is a simple consequence of the complete untrustworthiness of the Labor government.

My Gawd! thought we had got away with it!
Nice however SM, you have put some harsh views on Wikileaks and its founder here in past days.
Nice to see you use what you can ,but do you think, come be honest Mr Tony Abbott wanted his job before we knew?
By the way Gillard, like Abbott is no good in the job she/he has.
Bill Shorten will face Mal at the next election if this Parliament runs its term.

Shadow Minister:

I'm beginning to suspect that you've got a "thing" for Julia Gillard and the Labor Government. You seem somewhat obsessed with them.
Could you come up with something a bit more creative and original? Instead of re-hashing the same old litany. Politicians have a lot to answer for in both parties. Yet you seem to continually focus on only one side - you need to broaden your outlook a teeny, weeny bit. Either that or get something that's really worth doing!

STOP PRESS!

Ambitious politician plots ALP leadership
takeover before the event. Post-takeover
party spin denies such machinations exist
in the ALP.

I bet they do everything different in the
Liberals. Tony Abbott just woke up one
day and discovered that he was leader of
the Opposition.

Belly, Lexi, talisman,

Whether Abbott wanted the top job or not is completely irrelevant as TA never claimed otherwise.

The difference with this compared to Julia's continuous back flipping and reneging on promises is that she had the effrontery to stand up in front of the public and lie through her teeth.

So is this a world first;