Today Kevin Rudd has effectively resigned, announcing there will be a labor party ballot for him or gillard as leader. Support at the moment seems in gillards favour.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/game-over-for-kevin-rudd/story-e6frg6n6-1225883448804

If gillard becomes the first female PM, will this be a good thing for us? How will it affect the current government policies like the NBN, internet filter, health etc, if at all?

There is a chance Rudd will remain but if he doesnt....

Discuss.

probably a scheme for the labor party to win the next election.

if labor wins next election with JG as PM, i believe she will keep the policies of the NBN, i havnt read her stance on the internet filter.
Also, if she replaces conroy, thats a +
Weve had out first female GG, i think its due to have our first PM too.

we will all be banned.

he's challenging the caucus and i hope he kicks that whore in the snatch, a straightshot to the babymaker. We'll know in a few hours.

Also, the fact that shes the inbred offspring between a horse and a racoon is more important then the fact that shes female.

Gillard is now officially the first female PM of Australia.

Can someone explain to me why exactly it's happening?

Did KRudd use a federal car to go to a gay bar or something lol.. I mean don't get me wrong i never liked the guy but why is it happening in the first place?

krudd is getting kicked out by his own office cozgillard and her cronies are receiving under-the-table benefits in the millions from 3 major stakeholders who are in position to make a shitload of money from the resulting flux in the mining stocks.

fuck im good:

http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1075364

see, another labor scheme, epic quote trae LOL

I think its wrong how the labor party can oust their leader; who the Australian people voted for. We did not vote for Julia Gillard and as such she shouldn't be representing us. I think everything that has happened today shows all the faults in Aussie politics, why even vote if the party can chuck out the elected PM if they feel he is losing them votes.

No PM will even attempt to make tough decisions now, for fear their own party will boot them. Another step towards Australia being the ultimate nanny state.

I for one will not be voting for labor at the next election because of this, and the fact that Tony Abbot is a screaming god-botherer doesn't leave much choice.

thats why she will be holding a election in 2-3 months, but i do agree wiht you on your point

im happy, hes fucked my job and made it harder, cutting the budget in almost half, good to see him out, hopefully see some changes in the defence force,

oh and shit, when you say we are fucked, of course we are, a redhead female at head of state, thats 2 firsts ever, lucky elections are only around the corner

i don't think it was rudd who fucked anyone, it was gillard and the rest of the noobass labour party. everyone hate howard but didnt he bring us out of debt? and because we went back to labour arent we now in a 43b$ debt that will take 15 years to recover from?

Im 16 and even i know that Howard was one of the greatest PM's. He was brilliant.

Hmm. To me John Howard was a little whinging whining little fuck. But he knew how to get the job done. I never really did mind him, at least he was honest about fucking us as much as possible. So to speak. Kevin Rudd is good with words, he is very inexperienced though. I don't know much about Julia Guillard, but now Australia is being lead by a woman, in the eyes of most of the world, and this is not to sound sexist or anything, but Australia is a bitch country. I know to many people who laughed at New Zealand having a female prime minister.

I don't think that John Howard should have ever been voted out. He was still doing well. Sure he may have had some fucked up plans, but he was good for the economy. People just got sick and tired of the same shit over the years I guess.

noone really got tired of it, labour just concentrates on winning over the plebs and gets voted in by numbers.

In All, were going to get anal raped by Gilard for the next few months.

also, i saw someone saying that 'we voted for KRudd' actually we voted for Labor (all 150 MPS) , what happens in the labor team, and who they think should be becomes PM is their choice. We must accept because we voted for the labor party, and not 'kevin rudds party'. Thats how our legal system works. Julia Gillard is a snake tbh, she challenged K-Rudd after she heard people stating that she should be PM, and that they would vote for her.
She decided to challenge K-Rudd, and he accepted and they were due for a poll this morning, but K-Rudd didnt want to be shamed, as he knew he would not of won.

Time to bring out the fanta and cheezels for out new Prime minister

lol...Julia Gill-Lard? xD

well as much as we wish to see changes lol we wont, as she didnt want to be PM, and she was labor, as 2nd in place to the throne of pm, she had support of Krudd and vice versa, so in my opinion all changes/promises are/were pretty much the same, im guessing for a party to work especially PM to vice PM you would have to have the same image, therefor i dont think we will see to many changes (maybe mining tax changes, but we will see)

howard was awesome, i just hope all who fell to the gulible krudd feel guilty, mwahahaha!!!

boots out

Yesterday she came out and stated how she doesn't believe in god; that it is fine for those who do believe in it but it's not for her. And did it piss off the religious majority here.

I am going to say good on her and it's about time we had a PM who has enough strength of character to face the deluded masses of this country. Its good to see she won't sympathise with people out of fear she won't get re-elected.

I was very impressed, to each their own but its good to see we have a PM whose grasp on reality is relatively strong. Politics and religion should never mix, and that is why I am always and always will be suspect of people in power who have some kind of Christian faith.

Good on her.

wow a politician can say that in these days :O surprised it wasn't cut before it went on air

yeh lets just wait till she denouces Muhammad and see what happens.

personally whenever i see her on the news as PM i'm simply disgusted, you can say its the party all you want but i didn't vote her for and i don't want to be led by her. evil scumbag whore.