The Glory That Was Gillard

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7_tGL9V98

More precisely, the glory that was Julia.

735 thoughts on “The Glory That Was Gillard”

  1. “The answers offered did not allow me to say what I wanted to say, so I ticked ‘don’t know’”

    Got the survey last night., Did the same as you.

  7. I don’t know if it would be a good thing or not but I wish Julia and the rest of her hard working team and her supporters in ALP just left the party and started their own. I want to vote for someone, but no-one in Bruce deserves my vote!!!

  8. Fed up,

    { Slipper replying to Hockey;s complaint. }

    They didn’t want to hear it though, did they. The Deputy Speaker kept howling him down.

    I hope he gives a full account of it outside the Parliament. He would know of many more skeletons that are buried. I’d love him to reveal them to the world.

    Goodness knows what Abbott thinks he is going to gain from this MPI. Rudd has enough guts to reply to it himself and deserved credit for that at least.

  9. Rudd has just verballed Abbott into a debate at the NPC on debt and deficit.
    He’s going to push the “gutless” angle.

  10. from the perspective of a 37 year old, who loves jullia

    she says move on for her and her children,and aust, vote for kevin
    because Julia would want that,, she is working with children with disabilities the children cannot talk or walk im typing this as she talks to me
    she says the quipment and the building is wonderful with abbott it wiil be all gone it was part of the gfc building,
    and helping with the mothers and talking to them today,,giving them confidence to manage, she said her husband my son in law says

    not getting abbot is the most important thing of their generation.

    jullia would not want us to lose all the needs and helps for these children

    I am rather proud of my daughter, she loves Julia also
    but sees abbott and the most scary thing to happen to her gen

  11. leone – Meanwhile it seems the cops have given up at Hay.

    Would have been nice to have been able to plant him close to home.

  12. i was a 63 yr old life time rusted on labor voter yesterdays bull shit has ended that
    i will vote informal in all federal election until such time as bill shorten and his jelly
    back mates and there influence on party is gone.
    the definition of madness to continue to dump your leaders because of polling
    we lost a great labor woman pm , i am a male and am ashamed of these cowards
    no reply necessary.as i am done with labor.
    e mailed to the president of the labor party
    I am not suggesting or implying any one else should take this action
    but I can not reward these low dogs with my vote

  13. Scorps

    [Annebelle Crabb looked as though she was in the throes of multiple organisms last night ]

    Watch her interview Shockey!

  14. I didn’t seee QT, been out. And anyway, the thought of an hour of St Kevin and his plummy voice droning on didn’t seem all that appealing. Did I miss anything?

  15. CTar1
    I didn’t think they’d find anything. Sad for the family, they deserve to have it all resolved.

  17. I am starting to contemplate the decisive ending of an era..: The Boomer era…This unedifying behaviour doesn’t seem to have the same feeling of outrageous indecency on the younger generations. I wonder if we, of the Boomer years, are more inculcated with a sense of fair-play and decency than what the younger one’s expect.
    Perhaps the behaviour of the MSM. with it’s “reality tv.” style of political delivery is seen as the norm by this generation and the “cut of the jib” of these politicians being a sort of acceptable “political bling” that is easilly understood!

  18. In other news, Clive Palmer has just confirmed he DID speak with Brough and Hockey about bankrolling Ashby.

    Remember; this meeting was in March. BEFORE the story was made public.

    What’s more, press gallery journos are talking about this.

    It may well reignite this issue – and not before bloody time!

  19. In HR, Slipper said Hockey at meeting with Brough and Clive Palmer talking about paying Ashby’s fees.
    Hockey just made statement toi House denying this.
    Clive Palmer has since said meeting took place and spoke about money.
    Hockey has misled the House.

  20. Hockey was too tricky in his answer.

    He merely insisted he had never “met” Ashby, and didn’t know who he was.

    When Slipper clarified, he pointed this out (even though he was shouted down by the Coalition Deputy Speaker).

    As you say, Palmer has since supported Slipper’s position.

    Forget misleading the parliament: much bigger fish are now available to fry.

  21. Clive Palmer has since said meeting took place and spoke about money.
    Hockey has misled the House.

    Quick!!…MSM. shutdown, shutdown!!!…non-story, non-story! : hear, see, speak no evil….Danger!, Danger!….red light; whoop, whoop, whoop!

  22. There is an old joke about three delinquents who go to the drive-in pictures and because they dislike the movie, they slash their own seats!…I wonder if Rudd, having gotten so much into the habit of leaking to Oakes, starts to undermine his own leadership!?

  23. leone – Without wanting to go on about it I have always thought the ‘glint of water through the trees’ described by the informant was most likely Barren Box.

  24. danny,
    I think it was you.
    Your info was correct. Although I wasn’t happy with the outcome, I’ll be relying on you for the inside story

  25. Hello Patrons
    Just got home again and have been going through the comments .

    Can I say firstly the blog isn,t shutting down

    As much as the majority here supported J. Gillard it is not a Gillard only blog ,nor is it a ALP, supporters only blog or any other only blog.

    It is a place where people get together and discuss mainly politics but many other subjects as well.

    All are welcome ,You all Know the main rule” treat others how you would like to be treated“.
    Nothing here will change we will continue on . Raffle night will still happen,,the mods will still mod, and you can enjoy what we have all created here.

    Sure people are down and sad but the sun came up and life ( in some form or other) will continue.
    Carry on

  27. 6Pack

    [Nothing here will change we will continue on . ]

    Good stuff.

    Is the prize this Friday someones head on a spike?

    😀

  28. Rudd shuffling through papers while Smithie spoke his farewell speech was just part of a much wider mistake since resuming as PM.

    He’s a cold fish.

    Do you think he could have shown a scintilla of warmth in his cursory acknowledgement of his predecessor’s accomplishments? Not a candle’s worth. Not a match in a gale’s worth.

    This is his misjudgement right from the get go: having lost a great number of loyal Julia supporters, he is unwilling to make even the slightest show at appeasing them.

    That is dumb. Plain dumb.

    And it is a pity, because Abbott looked almost terror-stricken sitting opposite when Rudd challenged him to a debate on anything, anywhere, anytime. Meanwhile, Julie Bishop sat ashen-faced throughout the hour, and there was not a smirk to be seen on the opposition benches. The only sign of life anywhere was on Pyne’s red face. It looked likely to explode at any moment – but then it usually does.

  29. New video. This was cut to a different piece of music but YouTube knocked me back so sorry for any anomalies in the tempo.

  30. I just noticed that Julia Gillard never got the chance to make a valedictory speech today.

    Outrageous.

  33. I mean those LNP backbench cretins got to say their farewells, yet the Member for Lalor, in parliament for 15 years, Prime Minister for 3 didn’t get to make a statement. Oh well, at least she had her speech last night.

    Parliament will be a lesser place without her.

  34. Thanks joe6pack
    . I’m torn – I’m sad that such a tough,intelligent women has been replaced by the MSM (mainly) but more optimistic that Labor can win now. it’s taken me a long time to come to this decision but the enemy is Tiny Rabbit after all and we must all work to make sure he never gets the keys to the Lodge.
    I hope I haven’t made too many enemies by saying this.

  35. Been a lurker since the beginning and after the events of last night I had to seek group solace here. Still grieving the loss.

    rnm 1953

    re Margo Kingston reporting on Shorten is Brutus see

    Peter Logue @pjlogue 1h

    he switched weeks ago. Why did anti rudd journos like Cassidy and Atkins start to say Gillard was gone? @margokingston1: Shorten is Brutus.

    Peter Logue @pjlogue 17h

    That’s ‘cos Shorten switched two weeks ago. @vexnews: ABC’s Barrie Cassidy tipped this a couple of Sunday’s ago on Insiders #auspol”

    also linked to SK’s article on Business Spectator and found this

    http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/6/27/politics/tricky-bill-shortens-plan-track

    BTW Albo is my local member.

  36. Please do not vote informal. Just hands your vote to Abbott. If you believe in Gillard, vote for her legacy.

  37. @Joe

    Oh, okay. I thought it was due to Abbott’s stupid MPI that they had run out of time for it.

  38. Been a busy day at work but still found time to resign from ALP, get taken off every ALP mailing list, finish sending out emails to every member of ALP government, responded to ratf&ckers email with two words first starts with F second ends with FF.

    I have left the party and while I will not vote for the other mob of arskwipes the ALP are not getting my vote or even a part of it.
    I know some are going to support them because the others are worse but to me the question is how low will you accept as acceptable. For 3 years a group led by ratf&cker leaked, undermined and colluded with those outside the government and party to destroy their own party. I can’t think of anything lower, none of the 57 should even be considered of worthy of a true ALP believer’s vote.

    I have been a supporter of the ALP since 1974, I have handed out how to vote cards at just about every election since, mainly federal but also a lot of state, I have donated since I was 18 yrs old and sometimes I didn’t know where money was going to come from for petrol but still found it for the party and I am truly gutted and heartbroken to see what ratf&cker and his parasites have done to the ALP. I can’t believe they can sink any lower but I suspect that rat would find a way,

    I won’t condone what they have done to Ms Gillard by voting for them, to do so will encourage and condone it and even worse (if there is worse).

  40. Dear Leichhardtblogger,

    Welcome, even though for such a sad reason. Solace is a specialty of The Pub:

  41. Well I stopped listening to Jill Hall long ago, and have told her so many times

    I will vote fort Gillard’s legacy, but it i have the choice of a good independent, they will get my primary vote.

    So Jill ignores emails from the likes of me. I am sure there were many more. Jill supported Rudd from the day he was deposed.

    I seen no evidence that the Gillard did not support Jill from that time. In fact evidence points the other way. Gillard did use Jill in parliament, I am sure knowing where Jill stood.

    I am sure, in spite of many attempts, including the PM”s office, Jill would have found me a branch, if my support was with Rudd.

    Still waiting, for them to get back, with information of a branch, I can attend, not having a car, and being isolated. Laurie Ferguson and Newman, at Cabramatta had no problem finding lifts for old women. In fact they ensured that occurred.

    No, Jill you do not have my respect. You lost that three years ago.

  42. Haveachat,
    I am sorry.
    I know how a bit how you feel, but I have not got all my adult life in history in the ALP, so it must be pretty damned bad. Hugs, mate.

  43. I am a stranger in these parts, having recently discovered its heaps better lurking here than on Pollbludger, but this is my reply to that unbelievably insulting email from the ratf*cker…

    “You spent three years undermining the best PM this country has ever had, and dealing with the devil in the guise of Rupert Murdoch to do it, and NOW you call for unity? I have just two words for you Kevin, but I doubt they would get through the spam filter.”

    • Cheers Fiona. I am utterly gutted, made worse by the fact that some truly vile creatures on Pollbludger were rubbing mounds of salt into the wounds today. It is some solace to discover myself here amongst so many like minds.

      My husband just made me feel even worse by likening Ratf*ker to Tony Blair, with considerable justification IMO. As an ALP supporter since Gough took the reins when I was 18, it’s all too much to bear….

  45. Mark
    You are welcome and you have every right to your opinions.
    You need not worry about making enemies,we are a friendly bunch.

  46. @ Gippsland Laborite

    Thanks for that. These new boundaries make me worried. The Liberals have the advantage after all, they’re trying to shave off the margin of 2 Labor held seats in my area.

    Ballarat West would become a notionally Liberal seat because they got rid of the more working class suburbs of Sebastopol and Delacombe, and the Labor margin in Ripon would be scuttled because it would include more solid tory rural areas to the north including St Arnaud and Donald.

    But hopefully both will be retained in 2014.

  47. Fed up
    Jill Hall found the time to tweet twice in QT today, trying to put a good spin on Krudd’s performance I suppose.

    First she said it was ‘good to see the positive approach to QT’, implying that Julia Gillard had not kept it positive. Then it was a tweet saying ‘today’s QT has convinced me that we can win the next election’. I think it was all code for ‘thank heavens a bloke with a blue tie is back in charge’. What a shame she doesn’t devote as much time and attention to looking after her electorate.

  48. Leichhardt,
    Thanks for info. Do you think JG was aware?

    HaveAchat,
    I don’t agree with but respect your decision.
    I want to stop Abbott.
    Maybe 25 members of Caucus changed their minds between 71-31 in Feb last year and yesterdays vote.
    I don’t know as a fact but looking at the emotion on display by many, I think those 25 went through their own hell to make that decision.
    I don’t like Rat and I don’t condone what he’s done.He won’t have a labor legacy like Gough, Hawke, Chifley, Keating and Julia Gillard.
    He’ll always be remembered as a rat. That’s his legacy. And every Labor MP would know that.
    But I supported Gough. Then Bill Hayden. Then Hawke. Then Keating . Then Rat. Then Julia: because I support the Labor party. I will support the Labor Party again.
    On each of the occasions when there has been a change of leadership there has been lots of anguish. Remember Hawke taking over from Hayden, and yet Bob is part of Labor folklore.
    Remember Keating taking over from Bob.
    And now Paul is part of Labor folklore.
    These things happen.
    I still think JG would have won and though I disapprove of what has happened I’ll still support Labor.

  49. Kirsdarke,
    If there’s a swing against Napthine then Labor would definitely have a good shot of holding both those seats.
    For me the interesting thing is that all of the Latrobe Valley is now in the same seat, halving the nats’ margin in Morwell but almost doubling the Libs’ margin in Narracan.

  50. every one gieves a different way

    but come sept 15 the gieving will be hell if abbott pm

    so when u have all stop grieving get on with protecting JUILIA`s legacy

    because in spite abbott will jeteson all

    I ran into a neighbour we got talking I didn know they where so labor she is from Canberra they moved here to retire

    feels no different to most

    but agree we must keep abbott out

    and do u really all think rudd will read the 3 million emails that went out and returned of no . but if it helps you vent well that good

    but please think of other people in deciding not to vote labor

    the poor the pensioners the ndis,,, gonski NBN also
    don’t expect rudd to act like a Julia he never did never will
    so what if he shuffles papers who cares, don’t watch I didnt

    but if we can get home with him there

    thats all we need
    don’t let the children of aust get abbott vote for your country not the person
    how many times did we say that to bemused

    and others now here we are seeing the same thing

    rather foolish if u think it through

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