I only saw about the last 15 minutes of the Julia Gillard interview last night with Ray Martin.
A few observations:
* it seemed to be lit in a strange, harsh looking way. It certainly highlighted a bit of bagginess under the eyes of Gillard, but it did no favours for a well wrinkled Martin as well. I wonder why it was done that way?
* Gillard herself remains a cool, calm and very likeable character. She readily admits to mistakes, but regrets little and (to use that pop psychology term that has fallen out of favour) just seems a very "centred" person. Despite half of the public's nutty obsession with attacking her for carbon pricing, her general reliability for sound policy approaches runs rings around the ever flaky, unreliable, current PM we have.
* I was particularly impressed by her encouragement of women to enter into politics despite the troubles she had been through herself. (And her dismissal of the idea that anyone should get into politics because they like the attention it will bring them.)
* There is no doubt that Labor made a disastrous decision to go with Rudd - and as I have said before, the only good thing that a Coalition win has achieved so far is ridding the political scene of that menace.
Steve,
ReplyDeleteif one is an ALP supporter it was madness to get rid of Rudd in the first term. If you wanted to do it then you would o it AFTER the election.
Whereas Rudd tried to copy Howard Gillard reminded me of Howard in his unsatisfactory first term. He was terribly insecure and not all all confident of where to go thus heavily reliant on polling ,both qualitative and quantitative.
Unfortunately for Gillard she never got a 11/9 or Asylum seekers boats moment to restore her fortunes like Howard got.
Bit of a weird suggestion that the party dump Rudd just after he gets them back into office, Homer! They at least had weakening polls to give them some cover as to why they did it when they did. (They could not be open about the real reason that close to an election.)
ReplyDeleteWe will never know how Gillard could have performed had she not had Rudd and his silly minions working against her every step of the way. There is every chance that, if there had been no Rudd campaign to hurt her, she could have had a majority government and there would have been a completely different atmosphere - it would have removed Abbott's spiteful campaign against her as not being a "legitimate" PM.
So the psychopath was the problem. Nothing to do with the Lying Slapper. You're still a loyal eunuch in the harem that closed 15 months ago, Stevie. Let it go, son. She was a disaster who they weren't game to face another election under.
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ReplyDeleteThey were in a position to win very easily. That all stopped when they got rid of Rudd but could not explain why.
This would have been apparent after the election.
How was she a disaster?
Oh, one of the nuttily obsessed has dropped in. No doubt he's impressed by the ideological consistency and kept promises of Abbott? Heh.
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