Gillard takes power in bloodless coup (Australia to have a new Prime Minister - official)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | 24th June 2010 | Emma Rodgers

[nina0113]

The conservatives (called the Liberal Party) are just as bad – they just proposed a Parental Leave policy of up to $75,000 (about $60,000 US) for 6 mths leave from work after having a baby, paid for by a 1.7% corporate tax on big businesses, redistributed by the government to individuals based on their earnings.

Is that to encourage people to have more children? Who was it who said "One for Mum, one for Dad, and one for Australia?"

BTW, I recently read the William Stuart Long series, The Australians - I got all twelve volumes at the Goodwill. Very cool.

[alstewartfan]

Better looking than most salt water crocs, I must say. She’d actually be a hottie with long hair. But it’s a pity that she’s another leftist nut. Bob

[spokeshave]

A sheeler as Prime Minister? Who do they think they are

Yeah Mate...if the sheila can make the makins with one hand ...she'll be right.

(makins = paraphernalia to roll a cigarette...true Ausies can do this with one hand).

and two-up for the Olympics.

[DTogo]

Personally, I feel pretty comfortable within Australian limits.

The fewer limits and limitations (infringements) on gun ownership the better, IMHO.

[rotundusmaximus]

all very interesting, we will see what happens come election time.

Thanks

[militanttoby]

No, it’s to win female votes.

[odds]

When Margaret Thatcher came in to existence I was in awe (and supported some of her policies because felt they were necessary at the time in Britain, considering her immediate predecessor & the state of things in Britain at the time ...) - also, in a very male dominated British political arena, one needs to consider that, although not many did ...

Let's face it, the Queen (as a female & in the scheme of things) doesn't count, she is Not elected by the people. She mostly has to maintain a certain image.

Margaret Thatcher (Hilda as known to her own Tory Party) was quite unique to her “conservative/tory” British party, but as most know, she did not support her “gender” & mostly she could not - surprise, surprise!

Yep, Yup and Yes, this is going to be one heck of an public election in Australia. Doubt if females are going to be duped by a Gillard, Julia, Or females simply “voting” for Tony Abbott for some $$ for parental scheme - it certainly won't be for any one’s “looks”.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

And two of them are British. If the GGs were always still British appointees we could have had another hat-trick going on there...

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

"Margaret Thatcher (Hilda as known to her own Tory Party) was quite unique to her “conservative/tory” British party, but as most know, she did not support her “gender” & mostly she could not - surprise, surprise!"

Alpha-females generally don't like the competition from fellow members of their gender...

[Lancey Howard]

Voters lost faith in Mr Rudd after a series of bungles and backflips, including the shelving of the emissions trading scheme.

LMAO!! Australians WANT higher energy costs and higher prices for everything they buy?
Well, it's nice to see that Australia's socialist propaganda machine (aka, the "mainstream" media) is as shameless as our own here in America. Hopefully, the newsrooms there are dying as quickly as they are here.

[Lancey Howard]

My understanding is that Gillard is even more of a corrupt, lefty socialist scumbag than Rudd!
What Australia needs is a billboard campaign with pictures of a waving John Howard and the caption, “Miss me yet?”

[naturalman1975]

It’s not about most Australians wanting the ETS - most do not.

However, they also do not respect a Prime Minister who claims that addressing climate change is the ‘greatest moral challenge’ of the modern world - and then who abandons his supposed efforts to address it as soon as it becomes politically difficult. If he’s not willing to fight for what he believes in, it’s impossible to trust him at all.

[ColdOne]

My understanding is that Gillard is even more of a corrupt, lefty socialist scumbag than Rudd! I was hoping that was not the case! :(

[odds]

>>>>”Alpha-females generally don’t like the competition from fellow members of their gender...”

Interesting view or a theory about “Alpha-females”. I might even agree with it. But, how is that, in any detail, different to Alpha-males? I’m curious.

BTW, in previous post, I wasn’t referring to Margaret Thatcher’s competitive instincts, as a female, regarding Other females in politics. Only that her policies were not specifically, nor predominantly focused on, nor skewed towards the female (her own) gender.