Julia Gillard’s first act- dumping ‘Big Australia’
- From: The Sunday Telegraph
- June 27, 2010
- Gillard ditches Rudd population plan
- She reaches out to disenchanted voters
- Labor introduces two-speed immigration
- New poll gives Julia a winning edge
JULIA Gillard has used her first major announcement to reassure disenchanted voters that she does not believe in a “big Australia” with a population target of 36 million.
The policy is clearly at odds with former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who announced the “big Australia” targeting 36 million people by 2050 just as a new wave of asylum-seekers arrived off our shores.
Mr Rudd’s unpopular stand became a flashpoint on talkback radio and reflected poorly for Labor in the polls.
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Gillard bids to revive Australia’s stalled carbon trading scheme
Gillard bids to revive Australia’s stalled carbon trading scheme
New Australian PM pledges more consultation with industry and voters to win support for an issue that has divided the nation
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 June 2010 12.02 BST
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Australia’s new prime minister, Julia Gillard. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/Reuters
Australia’s new prime minister, Julia Gillard, today moved to revive a stalled carbon trading scheme, pledging more consultation with industry and voters to win support for an issue that has divided the nation.
Gillard, in her first comments to the media after former prime minister Kevin Rudd stepped down earlier on Thursday, said she believed in climate change, backed renewable energy and that the nation needed a price on carbon emissions.
But she also said emissions trading laws would lead to a significant structural shift in the resources-rich nation and they needed to be explained properly to the community.
“It is as disappointing to me as it is to millions of Australians that we do not have a price on carbon,” Gillard told reporters.
“And in the future we will need one. But first we need to establish a community consensus for action.”
Australia is the world’s top coal exporter and among the highest per-capita emitters of carbon dioxide, with coal used to generate about 80% of electricity.
Gillard faces a national election within months and climate change will be a major election issue. Her comments are expected to appease disgruntled Greens voters who swept Rudd to power in 2007 on the promise of action on climate change.
“If elected as prime minister, I will re-prosecute the case for a carbon price at home and abroad,” Gillard said, although any steps to revive emissions trading laws are likely to be in 2011 after the elections expected towards the end of this year.
Rudd whacked but Abbott now bleeding
Rudd whacked but Abbott now bleeding
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- June 26, 2010
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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.
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Why Gillard is no Kristina Keneally
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.