Rudd v. Gillard

[Mao]

Sorry for my ignorance (i dont watch the news).. but why is gilliard now PM? lol people were talking about it today but no one actually new exactly><

Rudd pissed a lot of people off internally, plus he was losing the opinion poll externally because of policy backflips. Labor didn't want to lose the next election, so they decided to kick him out and put Gillard in.


Labour will have my vote if and only if there is a reasonable settlement on the Super Profits Tax, i.e. abolishing it.

[brightsky]

I don't think Labor would be ALL that much better with Gillard as PM.

[vexx]

Sorry for my ignorance (i dont watch the news).. but why is gilliard now PM? lol people were talking about it today but no one actually new exactly><

Rudd pissed a lot of people off internally, plus he was losing the opinion poll externally because of policy backflips. Labor didn't want to lose the next election, so they decided to kick him out and put Gillard in.


Labour will have my vote if and only if there is a reasonable settlement on the Super Profits Tax, i.e. abolishing it.

Oh wow i didn't know that he was that bad to be kicked off.. interestinggg

[Visionz]

Female prime minister.. what a joke. At least with Kevin Rudd we had off-shore credibility. Now we just have some bogan broad. 

[lolbox]

Sorry for my ignorance (i dont watch the news).. but why is gilliard now PM? lol people were talking about it today but no one actually new exactly><

Basically in the past 6 months Rudd has been facing a lot of pressure for some backflips he has made and unfulfilled promises from his 07 campaign (notably dumping the emissions trading scheme, probably his biggest election promise back in 07)

In the past few weeks the Liberals began crawling back votes. Rudd decided to take evasive measures, introduced the mining tax and tried to play it as a 'Rich Australian Miner VS The poor aussie battler' sort of thing, which he has used so many times, hoping to gain back some votes.
It backfired as evidently average Australian understand the importance of the mining industry and its effect on our export market. Consequently Rudd loses more support, including the support (of the majority) his own party, they tell Gillard to run against Rudd, she agrees, tells Rudd of her plans to challenge him for pm. Last night  Rudd announces there will be a ballot the following morning to decide the PM. He backs out of that and resigns, leaving Gillard the PM of Austrlaia.

Honourable? I believe it to be mere gutless. Standing down without a fight (to something you really genuinely care about) is more embarrassing than being thrashed in a leadership ballot.

He held his head high and stepped down. Fighting would have been ridiculous and embarrassing cause had no chance of winning.

[vexx]

^ thanks lolbox i get it now. ahah politics is crazy.

[andy456]

Female prime minister.. what a joke. At least with Kevin Rudd we had off-shore credibility. Now we just have some bogan broad.  

I don't understand what is so bad with the fact that a prime minister is female. Can someone explain why it is such a big deal?

[EvangelionZeta]

Female prime minister.. what a joke. At least with Kevin Rudd we had off-shore credibility. Now we just have some bogan broad. 

I don't understand what is so bad with the fact that a prime minister is female. Can someone explain why it is such a big deal?

There's no reason, people are just sexist.

[ninwa]

Female prime minister.. what a joke. At least with Kevin Rudd we had off-shore credibility. Now we just have some bogan broad.  

I don't understand what is so bad with the fact that a prime minister is female. Can someone explain why it is such a big deal?

Cos some people are trolls. Ignore him, he just wants attention.

Finance Minister will resign after elections

[Mao]

While revolution is the new blackred, why don't we have some state-level coup as well?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/24/2936286.htm

[ninwa]

Labour will have my vote if and only if there is a reasonable settlement on the Super Profits Tax, i.e. abolishing it.

Haha I'm the complete opposite to you

[Albeno69]

Labour will have my vote if and only if there is a reasonable settlement on the Super Profits Tax, i.e. abolishing it.

Haha I'm the complete opposite to you

labour in my opinion cant be trusted, especially what they did to rudd was not fair to do that to a pm.

[lolbox]

Labour will have my vote if and only if there is a reasonable settlement on the Super Profits Tax, i.e. abolishing it.

Haha I'm the complete opposite to you

labour in my opinion cant be trusted, especially what they did to rudd was not fair to do that to a pm.

He was losing votes in the polls and was probably going to lose the election, his word wouldn't have meant much to the public. Though the policies/ideas of Labor will probably remain similar, the face of the party needed changing in the public eye for Labor to have any shot at maintaining power at the next election.

[Twenty10]

"I have more chance of becoming the full forward for the Western Bulldogs than there being any change in the Labour Party" - Gillard. Ages ago.

Looking forward to seeing her lining up alongside bazza next week.

[TrueLight]

I don't think Labor would be ALL that much better with Gillard as PM.

it won't... actually things might get passed more easily perhaps because all the focus will be on julia gillard the person and not on the policies and so things will get worse for australia ... yay wow $87,645,780,500 in debt ... last month it was around $80,000,000,500