[naturalman1975]

She is not officially Prime Minister until sworn in by the Governor General.

[ColdOne]

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

[x]

So Australia will have a woman Prime Minister ...

It's good to be able to get rid of leaders who don't measure up without having to wait 4 years.

But the downside is that powerbrokers can influence the decision:

The situation came to a head last night after senior factional powerbrokers from the right told Ms Gillard she had enough support to take the leadership.

The powerful Australian Workers Union and Health Services Union also quickly swung their support behind Ms Gillard as Mr Rudd's support base collapsed.

[SkyDancer]

How Rudd(e) ... people here don’t like Rudd ... almost equate him to Insane Obama The First .....

[RegulatorCountry]

There are times when our own ponderous, slow election process and the deliberate difficulty in removing anyone from Federal elected office seems insane. But, there are also times when the rapidity of the parliamentary system seems insane as well.

Is this process in response to broad loss of confidence among the people of Australia, or is it more of a backroom infighting situation? The alignments of various groups and interests don’t always fit well with our expectations of what constitutes conservative or liberal governance, and the usage of the terms themselves is often inverted from our perspective, too, so we’re needing translation from a native, lol.

[llevrok]

Red in the head like a .....

[GeronL]

Will this lead to new elections?

Does the other side have any good candidates?

[GeronL]

Julia Gillard: Leftwing opportunist

http://australianconservative.com/2010/06/julia-gillard-left-wing-opportunist/

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post/analysis. Very interesting.

(from my very limited knowledge it seemed like Rudd had moved slightly to the right after being elected)

[DTogo]

From a box jellyfish, to a salt water croc.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Voters have decisively rejected the Labour Party’s mining tax, as well as their cap and trade scam. Sacking their own Prime Minister will re-shuffle the deck chairs a bit, but the Labour Party is likely toast. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a new general election called within 12 months, and Tony Abbott will be the new PM - a true conservative.

[rotundusmaximus]

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

Thanks

[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.