personally, I think Gillard is a bull*shtr.
It could well be a winner with some people that they have put a woman in as prime minister as a first, some people would vote someone as prime minister on the basis of their hairdo - a la Keneally; but I think there will be very many people now who will view it as a cynical move, as a cover for a very dirty job.
(I'm not a righty, but I *will not ever* vote for labor in this country. I believe they have their own interests at heart more than ordinary people.)
This country probably needs a party like the pommy Lib Dems to take up the huge amount of middle ground here which decides elections.

female PMs the world over have been failures.

oppositions don't win elections, government lose them. Howard was statistically up against it to get another term. As well as that he caught liberal arrogance and pig-headed syndrome and couldn't see it - he was always going to go. Trouble was that that government was the best and most fiscally responsible one this country had had for decades. (It is very good to have money in the kitty when the world is going to hell in a handbasket; and people who are very thrifty with money are usually not the most scintillating people in the world - like Howard and Costello. But by jays they were good with controlling the money and inflation.) But no, so many Australians, as usual, get easily b*shted by cavalier, rhetorical labor politicians, and voted in an opposition who was more shocked than anyone. Now you have good old Wayne Swan as Treasurer and a prime minister with a really interesting hairdo everyday. Remember that when the inflation starts and you can't afford your mortgage any more. (labor politics can really stuff your life up for decades - and you don't get the time back.) Have fun voting labor.

just like labor will get booted out at the next election I reckon. Australians don't like this stuff, they will feel very sorry for Kevin Rudd (even if they don't like him) because that's what they're like.
I think they will drop kick Gillard and Rudd to kingdom come - labor will then scramble around in the wilderness for years and years to try and find someone to lead them. They haven't got anyone better than Rudd, Gillard and Swan - now that's scarey!
Abbott is a far far better option for this country right now, than people who don't know how to stop spending the country's wealth to make themselves look good. Get rid of these idiots. They are making us the laughing stock of the entire world! Gillard's accent isn't going to help matters either.

synergy - englads in real trouble for its debt now.
the way rudd ramped it up was ...... he was out of control.

gillard will tell lovely lies.


there is that good idea, that rudd will get a sympathy vote, people will refuse gillard.
really, the LIBs have to work on this psychology.

that mining supertax ..............

it was a super tax on low profits.
not a tax on super profits.

And anyway, coys making a super profit is good !!!!

who's Gillard got on the negotiating committee with the mining companies? Martin Ferguson. Now there's a flexible alternative - not!
He'll be prime minister next.
You gotta get rid of these people folks, you deserve a lot better than that.

the alp have been dishonourable, cruel in the extreme, and so frightened of facing the electorate on their merits. Now they will try and hide behind a "revolutionary concept" of a female prime minister and have us think that they are reforming things again.
The bullsh*t of these people is legendary.
(I do not vote liberal by the way, they are too pig-headed for my liking.)