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Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Picture: Kym Smith
Source: [url]http://www.news.com.au/national/julia-gillard-reveals-why-i-knifed-kevin-rudd/story-e6frfkvr-1226077420402[/url]
[release] • PM interviewed on anniversary of coup
• Said her decision wasn't driven by polls
• "Had lost a sense of purpose and plan"
• [url=http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/rudd-leads-gillard-as-preferred-alp-leader/story-e6frfku0-1226077423355]Rudd: Two-to-one poll lead on Gillard[/url]
JULIA Gillard has revealed the reason she knifed Kevin Rudd for the leadership a year ago was because he had lacked a sense of purpose or plan for the future.
As her approval rating sits at a record low amid speculation about her leadership, Ms Gillard indicated it was Mr Rudd's political paralysis that led her to make the biggest decision of her life.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph to mark a year since the coup that deposed Mr Rudd, Ms Gillard denied it was the opinion polls that drove her to challenge him.
"We had lost a sense of purpose and plan for the future," Mr Gillard said.
"We didn't have a clear plan as to how we were going to deal with a set of difficult questions or a clear plan generally about where the government was driving towards.
"What I've done as Prime Minister is inject that sense of clarity of purpose."
Last night, the polls showed Ms Gillard in dire straits.
She is on only a 31 per cent approval rating and twice as many voters prefer Mr Rudd.
The Neilsen poll today also has her government in crisis.
Labor's primary vote has fallen four points to 27 per cent - the lowest of any federal party in the poll's 39-year history - and the Coalition on 49 per cent.
Ms Gillard's own judgment is also being called into question with several senior ministers privately describing the decision to announce a $12 million ad campaign for a carbon tax as lunacy.
The final decision to make the snap announcement on Thursday had not been taken to Cabinet this week, although it had previously been approved by the Cabinet.
"It was crazy stuff," one minister said.
"I don't know what they were thinking. Taxpayers are not going to thank us for this."
Ms Gillard, who yesterday attended her 13th funeral for a soldier since becoming PM, said there had been testing times in the past year from the finely balanced parliament, and the summer of disasters and deaths in Afghanistan had been the low point.
Mr Rudd has also refused to remain silent on the events that ended his leadership.
In an exclusive interview, he called for the grass roots membership of the Labor Party to seize back control from the factional warlords who helped depose him.
"(It's) the ability of just a few folk out there in faction-land, to strangle the life and soul out of the show, that's a real danger," Mr Rudd said.
"The membership of the ALP and the Australian labour movement must once again take control of the party and the movement."[/release]
When will people realise that the main parties are a bunch of shitkickers whos main concern is that the status quo is maintained? This is like the democrat/republican situation in the US, except over here people actually care LESS.
Not like it matters, they both aren't doing anything amazing for the country so who gives a shit which one is in power
oh i thought somebody stabbed somebody.
that would make politics actually interesting.
Probably the worst government in our history? Guess the polls reflect that. At least the Libs don't spend money like a retarded drunk 18YO with a new credit card.
I don't approve of the Libs either though, Tony is worryingly affiliated with christian groups, makes me cringe that he could win the next election purely on how terrible Julia and her mob of idiots are. The Greens here a bunch of anti human morons too, argh, makes me rage the type of fuckwits that go in to politics in this country. All of them just wanting to ram their idiotic left wing, right wing or communist ideologies down our throats. I want a common sense party, some middle ground :(
Funnily enough the fattest bossiest chauvinistic backstabbing dickhead of a "mate" (acquaintance now) of mine is the only person who decided to do politics that I know too. He actually said to me at one point he was going to "Join the Liberals to infiltrate and destroy them from the inside"...... He's going to fit right in with the Labor party.
The day when Australia gets a good party will be the day when Half-Life 3 is released
aka a long fucking time
[QUOTE=ThePutty;30535115]The day when Australia gets a good party will be the day when Half-Life 3 is released
aka a long fucking time[/QUOTE]
The day when people stop making that joke will be the day Episode 3 is released.
aka a long fucking time
And to think, no matter how bad our government is, it's still better than the yanks where every party fucks over the country.
[QUOTE=Isotope;30535043]Probably the worst government in our history? Guess the polls reflect that. At least the Libs don't spend money like a retarded drunk 18YO with a new credit card.
I don't approve of the Libs either though, Tony is worryingly affiliated with christian groups, makes me cringe that he could win the next election purely on how terrible Julia and her mob of idiots are. The Greens here a bunch of anti human morons too, argh, makes me rage the type of fuckwits that go in to politics in this country. All of them just wanting to ram their idiotic left wing, right wing or communist ideologies down our throats. I want a common sense party, some middle ground :(
Funnily enough the fattest bossiest chauvinistic backstabbing dickhead of a "mate" (acquaintance now) of mine is the only person who decided to do politics that I know too. He actually said to me at one point he was going to "Join the Liberals to infiltrate and destroy them from the inside"...... He's going to fit right in with the Labor party.[/QUOTE]
I'm voting for the Sex Party next election because, like you said, none of the major parties are any fucking good.
If you go Labor: you get good social policies, but fucking TERRIBLE economic policies. If you go Liberal: you get good economic policies, but you get TERRIBLE social policies. And if you vote for the Greens: you're a fucking idiot.
The Sex Party haven't really talked much about their economic plans, but then again not many of the smaller parties do anyway... probably because they don't even expect to get elected in the first place. Still, I agree with (or at the least lean more towards than against) every single social policy they've put forward (stem cell research, pro-choice, decriminalisation of drugs, etc), so I figure it'd be interesting to see what happens if they got a fair share of votes.
[QUOTE=ThePutty;30535115]The day when Australia gets a good party will be the day when Half-Life 3 is released
aka a long fucking time[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Gabe now delays Episode 3 for three more years after seeing this post.
I don't know if the actual content is true or not but that's disgustingly biased reporting. Especially since it's put in quotation marks, implying it's a direct quote from her.
Elect the greens.
[QUOTE=famasfanalt;30536698]Elect the greens.[/QUOTE]
No fucking way
Greens are good as balancing act but if they were elected I would shoot myself, they have just as many horrifying policies as they do good ones. Everyone likes them because of Bob Brown and he's a righteous champ but there's a load of Greens members that are waaaay worse than what we have at the moment.
Really where's the argument, we should just elect MisterMooth
[QUOTE=sltungle;30535309]I'm voting for the Sex Party next election because, like you said, none of the major parties are any fucking good.
If you go Labor: you get good social policies, but fucking TERRIBLE economic policies. If you go Liberal: you get good economic policies, but you get TERRIBLE social policies. And if you vote for the Greens: you're a fucking idiot.
The Sex Party haven't really talked much about their economic plans, but then again not many of the smaller parties do anyway... probably because they don't even expect to get elected in the first place. Still, I agree with (or at the least lean more towards than against) every single social policy they've put forward (stem cell research, pro-choice, decriminalisation of drugs, etc), so I figure it'd be interesting to see what happens if they got a fair share of votes.[/QUOTE]
Voting for minor parties is just throwing your vote away.
Never.
Ever.
EVER vote for a green party in any country ever - you have to realize these are the freaks that would, when you and a dog are drowning in front of them, they would pick the dog and let you drown.
Aka humans are worth less then shit in their eyes.
[QUOTE=MendozaMan;30536731]Never.
Ever.
EVER vote for a green party in any country ever - you have to realize these are the freaks that would, when you and a dog are drowning in front of them, they would pick the dog and let you drown.
Aka humans are worth less then shit in their eyes.[/QUOTE]
Do you not realise that the politics in Australia are vastly different to that of Europe and America
The Greens are one of the more sensible parties in regards to environmental legislation and many other areas and they provide much needed balance to the house of reps, more people are turning to them as they lose faith in both Labor and Liberal
[QUOTE=killerteacup;30536802]Do you not realise that the politics in Australia are vastly different to that of Europe and America
The Greens are one of the more sensible parties in regards to environmental legislation and many other areas and they provide much needed balance to the house of reps, more people are turning to them as they lose faith in both Labor and Liberal[/QUOTE]
(carbon tax)
Sex Party will probably never get power because they're called the Sex Party.
Also, this fucking video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_gR6ahd3o[/media]
That woman... Is so fucking annoying. I hate Family First.
[QUOTE=N0 WAR;30536718]Voting for minor parties is just throwing your vote away.[/QUOTE]
No, it isn't. If the one you vote for doesn't get enough votes, it goes to the next preference and so on down the list. Pretty much everyone ends up voting for one of the major parties, even if they did vote for a smaller one.
ITT: Foreigners and even some of our own don't know how our voting system works.
Greens are perfectly fine to vote for, so long as they don't make it into majority like the guy ahead of me pointed out. Good for only balancing.
[QUOTE=Jake Nukem;30538910]ITT: Foreigners and even some of our own don't know how our voting system works.
Greens are perfectly fine to vote for, so long as they don't make it into majority like the guy ahead of me pointed out. Good for only balancing.[/QUOTE]
Or when they hold the balance of power like they somewhat do now. It's good to have a voice in there and it would be better if they needed them more often, but the Greens practically having veto power is just stupid.
Minor parties and such would have a higher proportion of seats in the senate due to proportional voting which makes it easier for them when compared to the house of representatives which has a preferential voting system.
[b]the biggest decision of her life.[/b]
:v:
[QUOTE=NightmareXx;30534986]oh i thought somebody stabbed somebody.
that would make politics actually interesting.[/QUOTE]
We would get so much more done if dueling was still acceptable :colbert:
[QUOTE=Faren;30538594]Sex Party will probably never get power because they're called the Sex Party.
Also, this fucking video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_gR6ahd3o[/media]
That woman... Is so fucking annoying. I hate Family First.[/QUOTE]
I think I lost some intelligence from listening to her.
Even though Rudd wasn't showing a lot of plans for the future, the work he has been doing lately has been getting thousands of people jobs. What has Gillard done besides talking about train station upgrades?
[QUOTE=Faren;30538594]Sex Party will probably never get power because they're called the Sex Party.
Also, this fucking video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_gR6ahd3o[/media]
That woman... Is so fucking annoying. I hate Family First.[/QUOTE]
My god, I never realized how much of an idiot she is.
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