Is your Labour party as thoroughly corrupt and far left as our Democrat Party? There are maybe two dozen Democrats in the House who are genuinely patriotic, less than half the Blue Dogs. How about in Australia?
She’s the same party as Rudd, but whereas he’s a ‘moderate’, she’s ‘hard left’.
I don’t think she’s an improvement in general terms (for that reason), but I think she is likely to be too far to the left for the Australian voting public, and so I think she’d find it very hard to win the election later this year.
In general, the Australian Labor Party is probably further to the left than the Democrats in the US, and Gillard is on the left even of that. I actually do think she’s honest. And I think she is a Patriot in the sense that she honestly wants what she believes is best for this country - I just think she’d utterly wrong in that opinion.
I can respect her as a person. But her politics are extreme.