 | Congratulations Australia!doctorbulldog | 23 June, 2010 at 10:55 pm | Categories: Australia, politics | URL: http://wp.me/p1NPg-6ch |
After a quasi-coup, which was brought about by intense opposition to Rudd's Carbon Pollution Tax, Australians now have their first female Prime Minister!
All you ecoturds take heed; passage of Obama's Crap & Tax bill will most assuredly effect similar "change" in America.
Australia's New Prime Minister - Julia Gillard
Australia gets 1st woman PM after shock party coup
WILLIAM WEST
June 24, 2010 - Sydney Morning Herald
Welsh-born lawyer Julia Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister Thursday after the once hugely popular Kevin Rudd fell to a party coup less than three years after taking office.
The tough, flame-haired Gillard was elected unopposed in a shock Labor Party ballot called just hours earlier, saying she could not "sit idly by" as public and factional support swung dramatically away from the former leader.
"I asked my colleagues to make a leadership change because I believe that a good government was losing its way... and at risk at the next election," Gillard said. "I was not going to sit idly by."
Gillard, 48, pledged to seek a popular mandate within months, and set about reversing the issues that sank Rudd by pursuing a dropped carbon trading scheme and urging mining chiefs to cancel a TV campaign against a planned new tax.
The plea drew immediate dividends as BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, cancelled its TV ads as a "sign of good faith".
Thursday's quickfire developments cemented a remarkable rise for the unmarried Gillard, who battled through the party ranks, and sneers over her lack of children and strong Australian accent, to become Labor's leading light.
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