I'll give Gillard credit in one respect, she has held together a minority government for nearly 3 years, no mean feat in itself. She has achieved this despite a number of major obstetrical's, not the least ALP factionalism, which I do believe lead to the downfall of Rudd. To factionalism you can add a scandal or three, Thompson for one, very poorly handled by Labor. Politically, I find Gillard is not all that savvy, the NDIS funding, she handled that badly, something that was a lay down mazaire she almost botched it.
Labor has also copped plenty from sectional interests and the conservative media, some has come at their own cost as they have made themselves easy targets at times. Gillard as the upfront spokesperson has not been all that good at the hard sell of policy.
A saving grace for Gillard and her government has been the generally lackluster efforts of Abbott and his people to be a strong opposition with positive policies, Abbott does lack creditability with many voters and it will be a factor come September, not saying the coalition can't win, at this stage I expect them to romp in.
Politically there is not a huge gulf between Labor and Liberal, take away some of the grandstanding by both sides, and unless you are so one eyed, you would not see a huge difference, more on inferences of policy, rater than a blatant difference of policy. On about 70% of what comes before parliament both sides agree. I do do not see much radicalism from either Labor or the Coalition.
As I said at the beginning of my post Gillard has done well to last so long. I don't know how, but she has.

Politically there is not a huge gulf between Labor and Liberal
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The whole country is well aware of that & no-one's really on about that. Where the BIG difference is is in competence. Labor has absolutely none & the Coalition has some.

Yes Indi, and the libs also have history on their side, something that is very hard to discredit.

So I'm assuming once again that my mate Belly, once challenged, has taken his ball and run off to another thread.

The truth often hurts Belly.

Yep, looks that way.