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Unions to help Gillards ‘ defeat Abbott’

admin /24 June, 2010

Unions to help Gillard ‘defeat Abbott’

Updated: 20:14, Thursday June 24, 2010

Australia’s union movement has fallen in behind new Prime Minister Julia Gillard, saying they’ll fight tooth and nail to help her defeat Tony Abbott.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has pledged its support for the nation’s first woman prime minister, saying a return to a Coalition government and Work Choices is not an option.

Ms Gillard has said voters will go to the polls within months, after senior Labor figures urged her to capitalise on her honeymoon period as the nation’s new prime minister.

‘We will stay focussed on preventing the Coalition from reintroducing Work Choices and attacking the rights of Australian workers,’ ACTU Secretary Jeff Lawrence said, after Kevin Rudd stood aside for Ms Gillard when his party turned against him.

NSW Parliament swamped by 7.725 anti-coal petitioners

admin /24 June, 2010

NSW Parliament swamped by 7,725 anti coal-power petitioners Media release: 24 June 2010 Petitions signed by 7,725 citizens of NSW calling for the Keneally government to abandon its plans for new coal-fired power stations were tabled in parliament today, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Dr Kaye said: “Treasurer Eric Roozendaal’s plan for two new fossil fuel Continue Reading →

Truce called in mining tax battle

admin /24 June, 2010

Truce called in mining tax battle

BHP Billiton

Source: Bloomberg

AUSTRALIA’S mining industry and the government have agreed to a truce in the fight over the resources tax, after Julia Gillard was appointed the country’s new prime minister.

The government and the sector have been locked in a bitter battle over the controversial 40 per cent super-profits tax, with both backing extensive campaigns to push their views on the proposal.

In an attempt to ease hostilities, Australia’s first female prime minister, Ms Gillard, offered an olive branch to mining companies over the proposed tax, pushing mining shares higher.

In a clever political move, Ms Gillard said she would cease the taxpayer-funded campaign to sell the tax and asked the mining sector to also end its fierce campaign of opposition to the tax.

Julia Gillard Takes Power

admin /24 June, 2010

leadership spill

24 Jun 2010

Julia Gillard Takes Power

By Ben Eltham

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard is our new PM as Kevin Rudd is knifed by ALP apparatchiks. In the end, Rudd’s only supporters were from the Left faction that he didn’t support, writes Ben Eltham

In the end, his fall was precipitate, even Shakespearian.

A leader who had once been so popular and powerful finished his reign isolated and bewildered. For months now, support for the Prime Minister has been slipping away: in the polls, among factional power-brokers, and among the MPs and Senators of his party.

One by one, and then all in a rush, Rudd was deserted by his supporters. The revelation his chief of staff, Alistair Jordan, was ringing around doing the numbers yesterday underlined the extent of his isolation within his own government. Where were Rudd’s loyal factional lieutenants? The stark truth was Rudd had none.

Rudd does the right thing by Labor

admin /24 June, 2010

Rudd does the right thing by Labor

  • Dennis Shanahan, Political Editor
  • From: The Australian
  • June 24, 2010 9:38AM
  • 46 comments
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Faced with an overwhelmingly and humiliating defeat the Prime Minister decided to pull the plug at the last minute and stop the hurt for Labor.

After Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan had signalled a joint team as leader and deputy on the way into the caucus room this morning it was clear Rudd had no chance.

Despite his vow to fight and declaration he could win after announcing the challenge last night the numbers and reality have run against Rudd.

But he’s done the decent thing for himself and the ALP and decided not run.

Gillard will now be Prime Minister and Wayne Swan the Deputy Prime Minister.

Tony Abbott faces a new challenge in Gillard but the leadership change for Labor is not without enormous pain and danger.

GILLARD POISED TO DEFEAT RUDD

admin /23 June, 2010

Gillard poised to defeat Rudd

By political editor Chris Uhlmann

Posted 9 minutes ago

Kevin Rudd is spending one last long night as Prime Minister.

Shortly after 10:15pm he announced that he had acceded to a request from his deputy Julia Gillard to spill the leadership at a ballot to be held at 9:00am AEST today.

“It’s important I believe, in the interests of the Party and the Government, for these matters to be resolved as a matter of urgency,” he said.

His supporters say the party vote is evenly poised. The Gillard camp says she had the numbers before making a single call.

He is unlikely to survive the ballot, which should install Ms Gillard as Australia’s 27th prime minister and its first female leader.

Mr Rudd called a late night press conference after a long meeting with Ms Gillard and party elder statesman, John Faulkner.

The moves against Mr Rudd began several weeks ago when one of Mr Rudd’s supporters, New South Wales right powerbroker Mark Arbib, approached his Victorian counterpart David Feeney to sound out the possibility of a leadership change.

That was prompted by a series of disastrous polls which showed the Prime Minister’s approval plummeting and taking the party’s primary vote with it.

Yesterday morning the two powerbrokers met with Ms Gillard. They returned at noon saying that they could guarantee the support of the majority of right wing Caucus members in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.

They told the Deputy Prime Minister that the party would lose the election if Mr Rudd continued to lead it. They said they believe the party will win under Ms Gillard.

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