Julia Is The Most Unpopular Prime Minister In History

10 Responses to Julia Is The Most Unpopular Prime Minister In History

1. Neil says:

   August 24, 2011 at 3:24 am

   And here’s why:

   http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/labor-turns-the-boom-into-a-crisis/story-e6frg6zo-1226120742007

   We can forgive the lies. We can forgive the knifing of Rudd. What we can’t forgive, though, is the greatest economic blunder an Australian government has committed: taking the mining boom and squandering it.

   From the article:

   THE crisis now engulfing Australian manufacturing has been long predicted and much foreseen yet the inescapable impression is that our decision-makers have been taken by surprise and are scrambling to do something.

   There are two unpalatable questions for Gillard Labor. Did Labor expect such job losses from the biggest terms of trade boom for a century? Or has Labor misjudged the boom and made a serious policy blunder?

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   Labor, in short, has had a competitiveness strategy but it hasn’t been pursued with enough conviction or whole-of-government rigour. Ross Garnaut kept saying the adjustment from the resources boom would far outweigh the adjustment from the carbon tax. The irony of this truism is Labor’s priority has been the smaller, not the bigger, adjustment. Now Labor is caught out. The nightmare Labor faces in 2012 is rising unemployment when the carbon tax begins.

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   Gillard’s reassuring words conceal a government trapped by forces that demanded an earlier and stronger policy response. Gillard said yesterday that manufacturing had a “bright future” but that Australia’s economy was undergoing a “transition”. Ridout jumped on her. “Transition to where?” she asked. Ridout wants a transition around a manufacturing strategy but Parkinson wants a market transition that accepts the Asia-driven structural changes in our economy. Gillard is stranded between them.

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2. Bruce says:

   August 24, 2011 at 3:39 am

   And she now has her very own Aussie equivalent of Congressman Weiner or worse, who she cannot sack without the government falling.

   Oh this is so much fun.

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   • Dave N says:

     August 24, 2011 at 4:04 am

     I always suspected she had a weiner

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     • Ivan says:

       August 24, 2011 at 5:38 am

       She has a whole cabinet full of them.

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   • GregO says:

     August 24, 2011 at 5:36 am

     Very funny shenanigans going on down under. It’s good to know our American politicians aren’t the only scumbags on the planet. Sometimes it seems that way…

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3. roger says:

   August 24, 2011 at 10:08 am

   The last leader to hold their hand out like that destroyed the country too, but Aussies can comfort themselves with the thought that if they can repeat history they will rise phoenix like from the ashes, create a trade and susequent monetary union with their neighbours, then economically destroy their partners and pull up the drawbridge as the world crashes around them.
   We really should still teach history rather than be doomed to repeat it.

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4. Etaoin Shrdlu says:

   August 24, 2011 at 2:10 pm

   Love the arm salute that was so popular in some places back around 1935 to 1945. Perhaps this may be evidence of reincarnation?

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   • A Lovell says:

     August 24, 2011 at 3:54 pm

     Yes, I noticed that. What the hell…….?

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5. PhilJourdan says:

   August 24, 2011 at 6:56 pm

   Australia, in order to show they were not misogynists, voted for a bad candidate. Just like America trying to prove it is not racist.

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   • Tom Harley says:

     August 25, 2011 at 3:19 am

     Australians didn’t really back Gillard, but the Greens did, as well as a few Independents who should have known better, giving her just a one seat majority. These few will be the biggest losers at the next election

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