Yes, Australia's PM Julia Gillard missed her true calling in pantomime. Nonetheless here in Oz we are being treated to almost daily updates about the lack of confidence in her as Labor's leader from her party backbenchers, along with ongoing polls which see her constantly lagging behind the Liberal leader Tony Abbott as preferred PM. She hasn't been a great leader by any stretch of the imagination, but the thought of Tony Abbott as PM makes me shudder. With Julie Bishop (aka The Android) as his deputy; now there's scary conservatism personified. Here's why I call Julie Bishop The Android;
It's her eyes; it's all in her cold blue eyes. She's a real "no - nonsense" type of the mega-anal variety. She would have made a good nurse/matron in the sixties. In fact that's where I see a lot of her values grounded; a mash of sixties/seventies/eighties, and not in a good way.
Some women might argue that bringing down women in power defeats the sisterhood. I guess there's elements of that in Australia, particularly so for Gillard. Much of the criticism which Gillard has had flung at her certainly is of the sexist variety, which I guess was to be expected for Australia's first female PM.
My main problem with Gillard is the way she expresses herself; slow, plodding, repetitive, deflective, slippery, insincere. She's never won peoples' confidence. Unfortunately voters here tend to get swayed by elements which are largely out of government controls, ie: the state of the economy (dependant on the shape of the world's economy, mostly the USA and China) which then has seen our budget go into the red. The Liberals leap upon this and squawk about how "Labor can't manage the economy" and that they "overspend" yada yada...."unlike the responsible Liberal government you saw under John Howard and Peter Costello".
The Liberals have a point to an extent; they do spend less on infrastructure like Healthcare, Education and Welfare. All the concerns of the lower to middle class earners, to which Labor have always appealed. Not anymore. All the polls are indicating a crushing defeat for the Gillard government, and the election isn't until September.
Anyways.........my very amateur political opinion aside; I just saw the Julia Pic above in todays online paper and thought it too good not to capture.
Meanwhile.........get ready Australia. Barring a major mishap, this Joker is going to be the next Prime Minister;
Even his smile reminds me of Jack Nicholson's one as the Joker in Batman!!!!!!!!!!
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