Australian Labor PM on Tory misogyny - Julia Gillard

[redsquirrel]

Rudd 57 - Gillard 45

 

[Dan U]

<oof>

 

[Chairman Meow]

Gillard is gone.

 

[butchersapron]

Right, now the GG - fingers crossed - will refuse him the PM role.

 

[redsquirrel]

TBH I think going to the polls early might be the best thing for him, get the maximum possible boost from the honeymoon period.

Crean or Shorten as treasurer?

 

[DownwardDog]

Right, now the GG - fingers crossed - will refuse him the PM role.

I don't think he would have done it unless he had the GG situation boxed off. Or at least a pretty good idea of what she'll do. Possibly proposing an August election will be enough.

 

[Idris2002]

Speaking of boxing people off, if memory serves Gillard moved against Rudd three years ago because General Krudd was trying to rein in the Aussie mining corporations, make them pay a bit more tax and so on. I assume he's promised to be a good boy on that front, this time around?

 

[coley]

KRudd has been unable to resist the temptation to knife Juliar despite repeated assurances to the contrary. Leadership vote at 7pm Canberra time.

There's real drama as it could go either way and a possible constitutional crisis as the Governor General may choose not to anoint KRudd as PM.

Love the expression

 

[redsquirrel]

Right, now the GG - fingers crossed - will refuse him the PM role.

Doesn't look likely. He's still got to survive a no-confidence vote if Abbot moves one, but two of the independents have already said that they'll back him.

 

[DownwardDog]

Speaking of boxing people off, if memory serves Gillard moved against Rudd three years ago because General Krudd was trying to rein in the Aussie mining corporations, make them pay a bit more tax and so on. I assume he's promised to be a good boy on that front, this time around?

There was already a perfectly good mechanism for getting more tax out of the resources industry via the existing royalties. What Rudd tried to do was add a federal tax in order to take and revenue and power away from the states and transfer it to Canberra. He didn't really do any consultation on this, a move that was to become a Rudd leitmotif, and ran in to fierce opposition from just about everyone in Australia except Wayne Swan. Gillard revisited the legislation with industry consultation, modified it and got it passed. It now raises almost no revenue and Rudd, if he has any sense, will go nowhere near it. Also, there is no more parliamentary time before the election so Rudd pretty much has to run on Gillard's record which is one of expensive failure.

 

[redsquirrel]

Greens agreeing to give him confidence provided there's an election by September, can't see Abbot risking calling a no-confidence motion now. If Rudd wins it, as looks increasingly likely, then it just gives him more momentum.

Speaking of boxing people off, if memory serves Gillard moved against Rudd three years ago because General Krudd was trying to rein in the Aussie mining corporations, make them pay a bit more tax and so on. I assume he's promised to be a good boy on that front, this time around?

His scheme would have been massively better than the one which was implemented by Gillard (it couldn't have been much worse) but even if he had the desire he doesn't really have enough time to get anything like that through.

Edit: Chris Bowen is the new treasurer.

 

[skyscraper101]

Julie Gillard, You go girl-

Is that Harold Bishop behind her on the right?

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[teqniq]

Is that Harold Bishop behind her on the right?

and Napoleon Solo on the left?

 

[redsquirrel]

and Napoleon Solo on the left?

That must be one of the nicest things anybody has ever said about Wayne Swan

 

[teqniq]

That must be one of the nicest things anybody has ever said about Wayne Swan

Is he not a man of principle? A politician? Never!

 

[thriller]

Wasnt he the guy who picked his ears and ate it??