Australia General Discussion

[Leftbehind]

I suppose the fact that everyone seems pretty unanimous on Rudd being a c**nt settles it, but having read the article Barnes quoted above, it's difficult to feel too sorry for Gillard either, given it paints her ousting of him as hardly one of a team player, and her supposed policy differentiation groundless (was it?).

(Yes I realise this isn't the Gillard vs Rudd thread, but it's the Australian discussion thread, and my views for answering that question lay in this thread)

[Leftbehind]

The Aus Parliament's so much more funny than ours.

Really? I thought it looked a much more serious affair. Our politicians don't really come across with any sincerity even in their rowdy confrontations, whilst Gillard looked convincing in her recounting of how the Liberals had campaigned against her, including Abbott, and how genuinely disgusted by it she was - obviously the vile dead father comments added much to the credibility of it (she even looked upset for the following comments after the 10min mark). Either way, if Abbott and Liberals went into parliament thinking they were going to make hay with that, they certainly made the mistake of their life. Abbott sat their looking like a scolded child.

[Leftbehind]

As you'd expect with our Commonwealth bonds!

[Leftbehind]

What has he done to lose it? Or was it always going to be difficult to hold?

[Leftbehind]

Yeah, even the clowns in Labor still piss all over Abbott from an astronomical height.

[Leftbehind]

At least it's nice to see that Rudd's cabinet seems markedly more left-wing than Gillard's.

This surprises me - that's not the feeling I was getting from Rudd's leadership at all? He seemed firmly on the Blairite centrist vote - not the left's man.