Gillard's unprincipled political exerpts of Maxine McKew’s book: Tales From The Political Trenches) What kind of person would want to become PM at any cost? To plan and plot to ungraciously bring down an incumbent PM, and then to deny the assassination had been planned over a much longer period of time? This surely not someone who deserves to be PM, let alone a parliamentarian. Yes, I can accept the rough and tumble of internal party politics (from whichever party) but I cannot abide those whose hunger for power is greater than their sense of fairness and decency. We can look back in time and ponder about the personal tussles between the likes of Keating & Hawke, Howard & Costello, but we can never look back now and describe Gillard’s assassination of Rudd as anything less than a ruthless and cowardly king hit.

Rainer,Labour are a political cesspool of dishonesty and corruption.A new party must be born from their ashes.

While the Coalition are marginally better,they still have some fragments of integrity.

Rainier I though that was all pretty much known anyway. Denied by Gillard and her supporters but there seems to have been enough indicators out there for a long time to make it a given.

I've not seen anything to convince me that there is any strong interest in the concept of fairness from any of the political parties.

As as far as I can tell it's all about their agenda's or appeasing the lobby groups and stuff any concept of fair play.

R0bert

The whole concept of people who dedicate there time and life to the service of others is gone.

What we have now are people who want to appear to be working for the good of the nation but in reality are lining the pockets of there friends and relatives most are not stupid enough to be lining there own pockets at the present - there reward comes in the future with massive directors fees being paid to them for as little as a few hour meetings once a year or lucrative other job offers from people that they assisted to grow richer.

Hold on Rainier, Rudd NEEDED TO GO!!

The Labor power-brokers and indeed most of his ministers and back-benchers could see a huge stuff-up occurring before their eyes, conducted by their leader.

It wasn’t a matter of Gillard planning long in advance to topple Rudd, it was a matter of Rudd putting himself in a position where he not only could be toppled, but really needed to be toppled!

And Gillard was then the obvious choice as his replacement.

Your criticism of Gillard is misplaced. Rudd got his comeuppance and Gillard whether she liked it or not, whether she had had long-standing plans to become PM or not, whether she had in any way schemed behind the scenes or not, was THE person to take over.

The important point is that Rudd really just totally muffed it and needed to be relieved of his duties.

And I say; damn good move. Boy, it was a hoot and a half to see that actually happen!!

Rainer I agree with you and have a thread talking about this.
I want to highlight my mate Ludwig is wrong.
And arjay is quite lost on this issue
This mornings poll is not a Labor rise.
In truth it is the boy who cried Wolf being rejected.
Abbottism, that crying Wolf distancing them selves from truth, has bought about a 50/50 two party preferred.
But too the end of a rather frothing at the mouth silly little man Abbott,in time Gillard too, Australia will be the better for it.