The Gillard Government

[MrBurns]

Blimey! Now I know why I never bother to watch question time, I don't thin I can't take much more of Gillard going on again about 'relentless negadividy'.

This was a good day you should see her normally, it's just horrible,

 

[MrBurns]

She is tough, so tough it might be a medical condition, her performance in QT today was squarely aimed at bluffing the weaklings she's trained to stick by her, she may even win the ballot.

 

[drsmith]

Will Kevin Rudd run ?

 

[MrBurns]

Will Kevin Rudd run ?

I think he will, he has no real choice, no one else has the numbers.

 

[Miss Hale]

This was a good day you should see her normally, it's just horrible,

At least today it was mercifully short

It still seems like a shammozle. Crean wants to be deputy but Rudd doesn't want him, some doubt if Rudd is even going to run. Will the Labor party be any better off after this spill? Disunity is death....

 

[drsmith]

Get the popcorn out and settle inopcorn:

Tony Abbott's suspension of standing orders to debate a no confidence motion in the PM didn't get up as it needed an absolute majority (76), buy it did get a majority on the floor (73/71)

Of significance is that Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott supported it.

2:47pm: Windsor, Wilkie and Oakeshott voted with the Opposition.

Slipper and Thomson voted with the Government.

Bob Katter was not present.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-pulse-live/politics-live-21-march-2013-20130321-2ggsv.html

 

[drsmith]

I think he will, he has no real choice, no one else has the numbers.

Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott have given him (or any other alternative) a leg up.

They have clearly demonstrated they no longer have confidence in Julia Gillard.

 

[drsmith]

The punters are betting against Gillard.

Sportbet had Rudd as PM at the next election at $1.50 yesterday, ~$1.80 this morning and $1.28 now (leadership challenge).

http://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting...itics/Australian-Federal-Politics-631837.html

 

[McLovin]

Rudd won't challenge!

 

[Miss Hale]

Rudd won't challenge!

+1

Edited to add: Didn't have the numbers I suppose.

 

[drsmith]

Edited to add: Didn't have the numbers I suppose.

He must not have.

I wonder what Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott will do now ?

 

[McLovin]

He must not have.

I wonder what Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott will do now ?

The independents sided with the Opposition to suspend standing orders which was done in order to move a motion of no confidence in the PM.

I just get the feeling something is going to break soon.

 

[MrBurns]

What a mess

 

[noco]

Gillard is still Prime Minister.

 

[CanOz]

(AU) Australia Party Leadership vote: Gillard Remains Prime Minister after party meeting, was unopposed - Source TradeTheNews.com

Well there ya go...lives to be defeated.

 

[MrBurns]

Oh hell, how can she Govern now ?

 

[explod]

Gillard is still Prime Minister.

I nice photo of her in the age today, if I was a bit younger a bloke could go for her, no worries. I spose being an ole shearer does not qualify like Time the Toff, but some may say she could do with a bit of dagging, though it hangs out a bit the lines are clean and of course the nose serves as a good counterbalance.

Well the contest looks pretty even now as long as the Libs hang onto Abbott who could not say anything constructive or positive to save himself.

I still hold that Turnbull would cause the greatest landslide to the conservatives in Aussie History.

 

[drsmith]

Oh hell, how can she Govern now ?

Like she has up to this point.

 

[MrBurns]

Didn't Crean say he would quit if she won ?

 

[Sean K]

This is all a joke right?