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Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister
An anonymous reader writes "Julia Gillard has been elected unopposed to the Labor leadership, seizing power in a bloodless Parliament House coup after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd decided not to contest this morning's leadership ballot. Ms. Gillard will now be sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister. Emerging from this morning's meeting, she said she felt 'very honored' and said she would be making a statement shortly. Treasurer Wayne Swan now steps up as deputy prime minister. He was also elected unopposed."
Now that she's been the 'first woman such-and-such', I hope she now abdicates so a man with more experience can get on with actually doing the job...
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I never voted for K.Rudd in the first place, and I'm quite delighted that he's out especially regarding the mining tax. But what I have real issue with, is that from one day to the next, we have a new Prime Minister that was "voted in". Not by us, but essentially by the unions.
So who really runs the country?
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
except in this case it is the previous government that did the cleanup while the current government has caused economic disasters. The liberals are not exactly nice and the war was idiotic but at least they cleaned up the disastereous state of the economy left by keating, Howards long reign allowed a whole new generation of people to forget the massive debt and interest rate legacy of the labor government, very few even remember the disgusting lies told by keating about how good the ecomony was before the election only to find out post election that he had run the country into massive debt and had been hiding it in the vein hope of being re elected.
To vote for one person, only to be screwed over and have someone I have absolutely no faith in, forced into leadership is like a woman saying "No", but having it done anyway!
As an Aussie, I don't give a shit that she's a woman, I'm just pissed that it happened without anyone in the public's vote!
And then the "girl power" bullshit..."Oh now my daughter can look up and see some other woman has done it" I mean FUCK off! I have two daughters and if they want to lead this country do you think I would have said, "Oh sorry girls, no other woman has done it before, you're shit out of luck!" FUCK NO! My daughters can do ANYTHING, regardless of their gender! To have people say this is a win for the chicks just adds insult to injury.
If you wanted to elect someone to fuck the country over, at least give us a chance to vote for them instead of shoving them up our ass and telling us to take it like a bitch!
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Someone tell me if i should hate her or not, the internet has failed me so far
She's the type of person who believes in the cradle-to-grave welfare state, and a strong supporter of - if not equally responsible for - pretty much all the policies of the current Government.