PhilW & Sledge. You've Got A "Sheela" For A Prime Minister, First One Ever.

[twyacht]

To our local Down Under members, what's the skinny,....Good, Bad, Ugly??

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65N00120100624

(Reuters) - Australia appointed its first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard, who vowed on Thursday to end division over a controversial mining tax, resurrect a carbon trade scheme and call elections within months.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional and ignominious exit, quitting just before the center-left Labor Party was to dump him in an internal ballot and less than three years after a stunning election victory in 2007.

The Rudd government's dramatic slide in support this year sparked fears within the ruling party of an electoral defeat at a poll expected around October.

"I asked my colleagues to make a leadership change because I believed that a good government was losing its way," Gillard told a news conference.

Bookmaker Centrebet made a Gillard Labor government outright favorite to win the next election over conservative opponents.

Gillard has long been one of the government's best performers in parliament with her ability to sell policies and deflect political attacks.

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Are you sure this the PM you want?

[sledgemeister]

and aint she a bueaty! So help me, may as well put obama in a ranga wig, paint him white and semd him over, I cant see him screwing us any more than this thing. If Rudd was a dud, then I hate to think what this makes Gillard.

[philw]

+1 to what Sledge posted


she was always sitting behind Rudd nodding at everything he was vomiting out of his pie hole

[fightingquaker13]

+1 to what Sledge posted


she was always sitting behind Rudd nodding at everything he was vomiting out of his pie hole

As a pofessional at this phill, I can say with certaintey that that's the best place to sit when sharpening your knife.

I asked my colleagues to make a leadership change because I believed that a good government was losing its way," Gillard told a news conference.

"Et tu Julia? DOH"!
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

I come not to praise Kevin, but to bury this knife in him him.  Julia "Antonius" Gillard  
The good that men do lives on while their evils are buried with them, let it be so with whatshisname .
                                        

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[fightingquaker13]

I come not to praise Kevin, but to bury this knife in him him.  Julia "Antonius" Gillard  
The good that men do lives on while their evils are buried with them, let it be so with whatshisname .
                                        

Its like the USSR in the twenties. Being a member of the Supreme Soviet was fun until Beria showed up at the front door at three in the morning. You wonder why I love politics, you can't make this stuff up. Honestly, its like the Sopranos, lots of boring episodes, a few meaningful glances, and then Bam!, somebody gets whacked.
FQ13

[philw]

I come not to praise Kevin, but to bury this knife in him him.  Julia "Antonius" Gillard  
The good that men do lives on while their evils are buried with them, let it be so with whatshisname .
                                        

it was more leaders of the factions than her

if she did not  do it they would of pushed with someone else  however they started with her as she was deputy pm


video at link
http://www.2ue.com.au/blogs/2ue-blog/how-julia-gillard-became-pm/20100624-z0nf.html


here in AU  we vote for a local member of a party, the party with the most in is the government  now  the party elects the leader we get our PM


a lot are not happy as they think it is a Presidential style as they think they just vote for the leader

[philw]

[sledgemeister]

and she is not even bloody australian!!!!

She is from wales, for those that dont know where that is its the even colder and shittier part of great brittain then england itself!

[tombogan03884]

and she is not even bloody australian!!!!

She is from wales, for those that dont know where that is its the even colder and shittier part of great brittain then england itself!

Is that why so many Australians have names like "Llewellyn"  
It was a penal colony  

Actually, it sounds like you've been there. It's so nasty they train the SAS there and occasionally lose one or two to the weather.