Alison Rourke
Wednesday 26 June
Australia's first female
prime minister, Julia Gillard, has been
sacked by her party just months before the next election and replaced by the
man she ousted three years ago.
After an
unprecedented day of political bloodletting in Canberra, Kevin Rudd beat Gillard in a
ballot of MPs by a margin of 57 to 45 to become Labor party leader. It is only
the second time a sitting Australian prime minister has been removed from their
first term in office by their party; Rudd was the first.
Delivering his
victory speech, Rudd dedicated himself to winning the election in September.
"In 2007 the Australian people elected me to be their prime minister. That
is a task that I resume today with humility, with honour and with an important
sense of energy and purpose."
He also paid
tribute to Julia Gillard. "She is a woman of extraordinary intelligence,
great strength, great energy. All of you across the nation would recognise
those formidable attributes," he said. "Julia has achieved much under
the difficult circumstances of minority government, helped by a dedicated set
of ministers."...To Read More.....
My Take -I have never understood these parliamentarian
governments. They kind of remind me of an unruly school room with cliques, like
to jocks in one section, the egg heads in another, and so on.....and each with
their own agenda .....and each trying to get the others to play that game they
most like, or can be most successful. There is one thing I do like about it though. Everyone can decide to dump the leaders without a time table to prevent it. Maybe its not so bad after all!
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