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Originally Posted by scottsy
I read about that this afternoon lateralus and i was pretty shocked... the general feeling from over here has been that Rudd was a pretty popular PM who would have been a no brainer going into an election at the end of the year... but he has made a few gaffes of late, introducing some not so popular policies and whatnot... but still i thought the Party would stick with their leader, rather than dispose of him so quickly and abruptly...
I read Gillard's "humble" speech of acceptance as a new PM, and well, it didn't come off the page as terribly humble to me... but then again nothing a pollie says sounds terribly humble to my ears...lol...
Honestly, I think she is trying to take things back into the middle more, as that's where the perceived votes are at... it seemed to me that Rudd may have been veering further to the left...
And I really detest it when politicians start saying they're going to start taking a harder line with border policy... smallmindedness tends to come hand in hand with this world view, and the whole border security issue is such a Howard era throwback...
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Yeah, it's all just crazy. I don't know if you heard from over there but Rudd's popularity absolutely plummeted in recent weeks, mainly due to his policy regarding mining and mining tax - such a stupid thing to do when mining is such a huge industry here. So yeah, his popularity was completely smashed and the Labour party thought they had better get rid of him otherwise they won't win the next election. I'm not a fan of any politicians really, but I feel sorry for him that his own party just turned on him like that. If you get a chance to watch his farewell speech it is really sad - he actually cries. The fact that he blubbers shows that he obviously cares about Australia and about his job as PM. It was really sad to watch! That being said, Gillard was probably once of the most active deputies ever seen and I think it was just a matter of time before she took over.
I'm fascinated by the fact that we have our first female PM but at the same time I'm really apprehensive about what is going to happen and what Gillard is going to be like. As education minister she made a lot of decisions that I didn't agree with, being a student teacher in schools.
I just can't believe that our PM was overturned like that, when there wasn't even an election or anything!