The Gillard interview

[fiestas*girl]

Watching now and enjoying listening to her speak, she doesnt stumble, repeat herself, aaahhhhh ummmmmm or end her words with

A or ZA...

making the most of airtime by speaking clearly and retaining my attention.

i highly valuemand apprs iate someone who can speak so eloquently

[karliandjacko]

The accusation of playing the gender card is an tactic used by those who have no valid reason for hating the woman.

I thought you were not going to read the book.  What changed?  

[debra9275]

no it's  not just that, she was PM of our country and I've never seen such terrible things written or said about a PM . the rot seemed to start when TA was in opposition and now it's ongoing . he's copping the same thing too.

selfish and power hungry he was, orchestrating ashbygate etc; etc, he said he would do anything to get into office and he did. Julia did some fantastic forward thinking things as shown in my next post

[debra9275]

Australia was so alive and moving forward too!

[alexander*beetle]

I think what happened to her was a wake up call for many people. Political persuasions aside, the treatment of her as a woman was appalling and I hope we never see another high profile woman have to endure what was thrown at her. Some will not be able to remove their hatred of her to acknowledge that no other woman in Australian political history ever had to put up with what she did. 

[debra9275]

I thought it was shocking  I still can't believe some of the things I saw written about her, not to mention the sick cartoons

& she "handled it"" all

I'm not sure that I could

[alexander*beetle]

No, I don't think many people could have handled what happened. Be they male or female. I can understand people not liking a politician, I'm guilty of not being enamoured with a few at the moment, but some of the things I saw written were shocking. There is no more devastating threat to make to a woman than to threaten rape and I saw many comments that she should be 'gang raped', sodomised, by animals, by objects etc. Why? Because she was a woman. There are a  lot of negative comments about Tony Abbott at the moment but I've yet to see one comment about threatening to gang rape him. 

[lightningdance]

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@debra9275 wrote:

Australia was so alive and moving forward too!

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OMG a grown woman posted this? 

All of the above were on the never neve so she achieved very little of consequence and what she did achieve was the biggest rort this country had ever seen BER after the pink batts disaster. Billions spent for nothing.

[karliandjacko]

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@lightningdance wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

Australia was so alive and moving forward too!

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OMG a grown woman posted this? 

All of the above were on the never neve so she achieved very little of consequence and what she did achieve was the biggest rort this country had ever seen BER after the pink batts disaster. Billions spent for nothing.

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Australian schools and students are nothing?

I don't think so.  The money was in most cases well spent on highly valued projects.

Overall the insulation scheme was also a success.

[debra9275]

can I just remind you of 2 pretty much failed, very expensive politically motivated Royal Commissions

882 million given to rupert murdoch in tax breaks

and the list goes on & on

[lightningdance]

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@alexander*beetle wrote:

No, I don't think many people could have handled what happened. Be they male or female. I can understand people not liking a politician, I'm guilty of not being enamoured with a few at the moment, but some of the things I saw written were shocking. There is no more devastating threat to make to a woman than to threaten rape and I saw many comments that she should be 'gang raped', sodomised, by animals, by objects etc. Why? Because she was a woman. There are a  lot of negative comments about Tony Abbott at the moment but I've yet to see one comment about threatening to gang rape him. 

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The same is happening for PM Abbott so what's that all about? at least we have a PM that can do the job, not like Gillard, who could not do the job, floundered and shrunk in the position to the extent that her own party knifed her to put back in  a man they despised.

Rudd made the deal with his own party, Gillard had to disappear from the face of the political landscape otherwise he wouldn't come back and they were all to willing, couldn't do it fast enough, to dispose of her,  just like the Law firm she was sacked from, they couldn't wait to get rid of her either.

She disappeard,  didn't lift a finger for her pay until she finally resigned, greedy and grasping till the end. 

These are the facts and you can all trolley along on her gender war train but it's meaningless, many on here are guilty of posting the  hate pictures  and spouting off about Abbott themselves, one old comrade in particular.