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THE texts from Liberals as Labor’s leadership drama unfolded were telling. “Bad news for us,” was the most succinct. Tony Abbott and those around him had become very confident about beating Kevin Rudd, but now they fear a likely victory has been snatched away.
In crude power terms, those wheeling the tumbrel up to Rudd’s door on Wednesday night knew what they were doing.
The sight of factional bosses and union heavies ousting a first-term PM was ugly, and offended many – even some Rudd critics.
But when Julia Gillard says the aim was to get the Government back on track, she means for re-election.
And the first polls since she became Australia’s 27th PM suggest it is mission accomplished. Gillard has novelty value as the first woman PM. Much more important, though, she is smart, has political nous and is a good communicator.
She is likable in a very Australian way, despite her Welsh birth. A kind of female Bob Hawke without the boozing and the sex.
Two new polls give Gillard winning lead AAP June 26, 2010, 5:54 am Related Links Story: 7News: Our first lady Two new polls have given Julia Gillard’s government an election-winning lead. A Galaxy poll published in News Ltd newspapers on Saturday shows Ms Gillard’s ascension to the top job has lifted Labor’s primary vote Continue Reading →
The comparisons are obvious. Julia Gillard has been installed by factional powerbrokers as leader of a Labor government in a certain amount of trouble.
She’s yet to be tested by the electorate, oh, and she was born overseas. But while Kristina Keneally’s ascension to the top of the NSW ALP was met (by me included, right here on The Punch) with a cynical roll of the eyes, Australia’s first female Prime Minister is a different story.
Gillard didn’t have to front the media yesterday declaring “I’m nobody’s puppet, I’m nobody’s girl.” And that’s because, unlike Keneally, she’s not.
For starters, Julia Gillard has a chance of winning the election, Kristina Keneally does not. Keneally was a sacrificial lamb, Gillard is not.
With Rudd gone, Libs are on a loser
HERE is my prediction and I am well aware I will be held to account for it. Julia Gillard won’t just win the next election, she will increase Labor’s majority.
Kevin Rudd was Labor’s biggest problem, not the policies his government has enacted, not the personnel in his parliamentary team. The published polls and the internal party polling all showed Rudd had become a drag on Labor’s vote.
It is a big call to depose a first-term prime minister, but it was the right thing for Gillard to do.
We all knew even if Rudd won the next election he wasn’t going to last very long in the aftermath. At least this way Gillard is letting the Australian people decide who they want to run the country after the election – her or Tony Abbott.
Of course the first few weeks of Gillard’s prime ministership are going to be critical to how she performs at the next election.
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British scientists say a new ocean is developing in Africa that will eventually split the continent in two.
In 2005, a 60-kilometre crack opened up in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
In 10 days it reached a width of eight metres and has been expanding ever since.
A University of Bristol seismologist working in the Afar region, James Hammond, says the split will happen over about 10 million years.