PM's cabinet splits as Roxon, Evans quit

[nero_bolt]

Rome is burning and Labor is imploding and more will come and its all under Gillards leadership.

JULIA GILLARD has been forced into an emergency Cabinet reshuffle following the shock resignations last night of Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and Higher Education Minister Chris Evans.

Ms Roxon is set to announce today she will quit Cabinet but remain in Parliament until the election.

Senior government sources confirmed the resignations which come only only days after the Prime Minister announced an election for September 14.

Ms Gillard will face caucus on Monday before Parliament resumes the following day with the government in chaos.

Last night frantic calls were being made among senior MPs as word leaked out about the resignations, with renewed talk about the stability of Ms Gillard's leadership. Ms Roxon's decision comes only days after she rolled back controversial anti-discrimination legislation banning conduct that offends, insults or intimidates.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/prime-minister-julia-gillards-campaign-in-disarray-as-minister-for-higher-education-chris-evans-resigns/story-e6freuy9-1226567059223

Abandon ship! Now Roxon tipped to quit, too

It’s starting to look like a stampede for the gates:

JULIA Gillard has been forced to reshuffle her ministry after veteran Chris Evans’ decision to quit and with Attorney-General Nicola Roxon expected to announce today her retirement from politics at the next el...

One senior Labor MP told The Weekend Australian late last night that “Rome is burning"…

[Former Attorney-General Robert] McClelland, a Kevin Rudd supporter, said this week he would not contest his seat at the election.

Roxon has demonstrated this past year how inadequate she is for high office. Her vitriolic attacks on the alleged personal shortcomings of Tony Abbott made her seem shrill, but far worse were her clumsy, deceptive and inappropriately partisan handling of the James Ashby case and her outrageous attempt to introduce wide-ranging new laws to restrict debate on politics, race, religion and even “social origin” that might give “offence” and “insult”.

She has been an almost completely negative factor for the Government - the Minister for Hectoring and Censoring - and her departure will disappoint very few. Sadly, her mooted replacement, Mark Dreyfus, promises little better. 

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/abandon_ship_now_roxon_tipped_to_quit_too/

How many more rats will desert this sinking and stinking ship... 

[kengillard]

we all make mistakes...........some more than others:^O

[monman12]

LL "......what a great success roxon has been...."

That is a somewhat incredible statemt LL, considering Roxon's record of interfering in due process. i.e. her comments apropos the Ashby/Slipper case whilst it was before the courts:-

"This favouritism to one of the parties earned the Attorney-General a rare rebuke from the judge, who said it could “undermine public confidence in the court”. Roxon has apologised for that."

"As Attorney-General, Ms Roxon has displayed a worrying inability to distinguish her legal responsibilities from her political beliefs, unacceptably interfering in due process on more than one occasion."

At least with the appointment of her replacement, Mark Drefus, we will have in the highest law  office of the country a person with many years law experience as a barrister, and a QC, as opposed to only a solictor with practical experience just as an industrial lawyer and senior associate with law firm Maurice Blackburn and Co.

[lakeland27]

c''mon john .. roxon beat big tobacco  . experience isnt everything. you need some ticker to do that. its been played down a bit, but its probably the biggest public health win seen for a long time. i agree dreyfus will make a good replacement.

[kengillard]

and he's a MAN monman?   should make a diffference? sarcastic remark from moi?

[kengillard]

as an ex smoker and a relative of Nicola...I applaud her tobacco stance.

[lakeland27]

  i'd like her if she was a liberal gill.

[lightningdance]

Mark Dreyfus was known as mark dufus when he was employed by the NLC NT. He was a total fool & alienated everyone who came in contact with him.

It's just getting worse every day for this shambolic govt. The sooner they are gone the better off this country will be.

As for this being the correct time to resign as they "both spoke to Gillard"  :^O:^O:^O12 months ago. Well this beggars belief, Roxon asked to leave one month after gaining her life achievement to be the 1st law officer of the land, Oh please.

They cannot be believed & trust is going to be the agenda in this election year & they started out by lying & spinning a major event.

They cannot be trusted, they cannot be believed.

[poddster]

.....it was confirmed that both of those people 'ad made their intentions clear to the prime minister, as far back as a year ago. .................

And you believe that hahahahahahahahasha.

[lakeland27]

tell me more , i'm enthralled .

[catsnknots]

PM shows her true self again... cries because an MP moves on but did not shed a tear for the locals when she came to Bundaberg....