on 23-09-2014 07:55 PM
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
on 27-09-2014 11:47 AM
she wasn't given a chance to do her job thanks to the murdoch press, I'll never forget their biased involvemnt in destroying a govt here in Aust
on 27-09-2014 11:59 AM
@debra9275 wrote:she wasn't given a chance to do her job thanks to the murdoch press, I'll never forget their biased involvemnt in destroying a govt here in Aust
Whatever, it's always somebody else's fault isn't it.
Poor Julia she was just a woman wasn't she, she was picked on and called names, poor thing.
Get out of the schoolyard and into the real world, she could dish it out as much as she got, more so because she was the darling of the media and given huge amounts of airtime to cry sexist to and she did it, it was a strategy of McTernan's, he thought it up to try to save her.
Whatever you all think about her treatment she dished out just as much, whole press conferences of vitriol and thin lipped scorn.
on 27-09-2014 12:35 PM
@lightningdance wrote:
@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.
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.
I disagree and I think there is plenty of evidence that the gender issue was caused by others, not her. Just because she called them out on it doesn't mean she started it. It was the people who used her gender against her that were the issue. And they are not the facts, they are just your opinion.
on 27-09-2014 12:54 PM
No, they're not the facts. They're your opinion and your opinion only.
Gillard has more integrity than the entire current front bench combined.
on 28-09-2014 09:10 AM
This critique from a real author and political commentator who has written about politics for over 30 years and is the author of countless successful books. The real Julia is exposed as a assassinator and a failure as a politician.
JULIA Gillard’s memoir reveals to Australian women her emotional inner life, the tears, anger and stoical frustrations, while providing a sustained defence of her policy record — yet the book is weak, silent and self-serving on Gillard’s responsibility for the failures of the Labor era.
Gillard’s rationalisation of her behaviour descends into sophistry with her claim she felt Kevin Rudd would have a “feeling of relief” after she destroyed his prime ministership in one night and that Rudd should have done the “decent thing” by quitting politics at the 2010 election.
How convenient. Such claims beggar belief. They reflect Gillard’s determination to prove her moral superiority over Rudd as defined by Labor’s best interests as a party, yet they expose her refusal to come to grips with the consequences of her fatal decision to execute Rudd.
These memoirs testify to the delusional nature of much of Labor’s self-created policy and leadership narrative surrounding the Rudd-Gillard era.
on 28-09-2014 09:12 AM
That is a subscriber only article you have linked.
on 28-09-2014 09:20 AM
Can you name the author please.
on 28-09-2014 09:49 AM
on 28-09-2014 09:54 AM
& it's only from The Australian, most likey it's rubbish like all the rest of their biased articles.
Who'd pay to read that stuff???
not me or anyone else I know
28-09-2014 10:01 AM - edited 28-09-2014 10:02 AM
FORMER Governor-General Quentin Bryce has spoken about the sexism, cruelty and overt abuse former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was subject to while running the country.
another article from The Australian by Shari Markson