Well its happened. Australia has a new Prime Minister. When I went to bed last night Kevin Rudd was our Prime Minister but when I woke up the next day Julia Gillard had replaced him. And there was a new 'special edition' Woman's Day magazine on the shelves. Yes, less than 24hours after it happened a new magazine had been written, printed and distributed. Those magazine people are so efficient they could nearly run the country!
I don't mind a woman Prime Minister at all (with four daughters am I going to say anything else!) I think a Prime Minister should be elected on their merits and sex shouldn't come into it at all. However I do resent a deputy Prime Minister who a week earlier on national television promises to support and be loyal to the current Prime Minister and then a week later replaces him. Doesn't this show a lack of principles? Is this fitting from a leader?
And I believe our first woman Prime Minister has passed her first law. Yep, from now on we have to put the toilet seat down.
Photo from: images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2010/06/231632026/rudd-gillard
Maybe we wouldn't have had such high expectations if it were two men vying for the job?
ReplyDeleteGood point....but it is certainly the man who is the worst of the two.
ReplyDeletewe get another go at it - changing government that is - hope the folks in the cheap seats or is it swing seats are thinking a little more about the policies rather than the personalities and their own back pockets - just a faint hope from a true believer maybe or a stupid dreamer
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