It's going to be a big night at Tilleys

cleo said :

I for one will be voting for Julia, can’t imagine that little grug Abbott being Prime Minister yuk!

Dose this mean you will be voting for the Labour Party not the Liberal Coalition Party’? Remember you’re voting for your local representative. Not the Prime Minister. The party may indeed change their mind once the election is fought and won as to who will be Prime Minister.

+ 1000 Cleo

Slimy Tony Abbott as Prime Minister … no way!

Better dead than Red?

She’s WELSH for goodness sake

Exactly. Why haven’t the mainstream media picked this up!

My god, last time I was in Wales I was stuck in a pub for three days as it was pissing down rain.

How many times to I have to say this:

NEVER TRUST A GINGER

But you cannot take the Welshness out of the girl…

Lucky men.

I for one will be voting for Julia, can’t imagine that little grug Abbott being Prime Minister yuk!

Rawhide Kid No 2 said :

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.
I don’t know why I am feeling so betrayed? It is after all politics – dirty, deceitful and underhanded. Australian politics at its best. Bring on Don Kee.

I hate to bust your bubble, But………… We don’t vote for a (the) Prime minister. We vote for the Party and the local representative for that Party. The elected party appoints the Prime Minister for this country.

thank you for saying this!!!!! we are not the US!

Swann is the male equivilent of Julie Bishop sadly – he’ll support what he needs to in order to stay in. How long do you think Albanese will survive…………?

Swaggie said :

Good on her – best thing Labor have done all year – Kevin can vanish into obscurity for all I care but I’ll still vote for The Libs with reluctance solely on economic management grounds.

I am pretty sure that at the end of Howard’s reign, interest rates were on the up & up and it was labour that kept us out of recession and the other economic woes !!

I am sure that if liberal were still in during that time, a lot more jobs would have been lost, but the top end of town would have survived ok

DavoDavo said :

Just goes to show the intelligence of the average (probably Labor) voter

Another obnoxious thing that Americans do is “the people who vote for the political party other than my political party are all stupid and/or evil and/or tyrants and/or ignorant”. I would hate to think that Australians are now doing the same thing.

Julia Gillard reminds me of Willard, and I hate Willard. Willard and his damn rats!

GnT said :

bd84 said :

Awesome, she can create some new records as 1st woman Prime Minister and for one the shortest length of time as serving Prime Minister when we vote these douches out later in the year or early next year.

She only has to last a week to beat Forde’s record.

WIth any luck, she will still make the top 5 shortest of all time.

taninaus said :

Who said women couldn’t rule the world!

Suits me, gives us blokes more time for golf and fishing etc…

My mother in law owns a downstairs unit at the Gillard complex, and I’d like to let any Chinese agents who might be reading that the bidding will start at 1.5 mill (that’s 8.9 million yuan for round figures).

damien haas said :

Pleasing to see the ALP still acting on the proven good advice from the NSW right.

These are the people that brought you Latham and a succession of NSW Premiers and accompanying weekly ministerial reshuffles, resignations and promises to do better.

Apparently the NSW powerbrokers considered Wayne Swan as an alternative. However, they felt that there was insufficient time for Swan’s personality to register with voters before the next election.
They didn’t want him to become a lame duck.

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Some quotes;

“The Welsh are stubborn-very, very stubborn. The Welsh themselves would probably rather say “tenacious”, but to anyone on the receiving end a better description might well be – bloody minded.”

“Once a Welshman gets an idea-any idea- in his mind, nothing will dislodge it, and he will go to incredible lengths to realise it. In Wales even pacifists are belligerent about their beliefs”

“To a Welshman the benefits of the wonderful gifts of Welshness are so obvious that there is no need to boast about them. After all the Welshman’s world is made up of only two types of people: fellow Welshmen (who understand already) and the rest (whose opinions do not count)”

“Wales is run by a secret and sophisticated elite, the extent of whose power is carefully hidden. Wales is, in fact, run entirely by Women. Welsh Women are truly formidable. They are strong- minded and articulate, with clear objectives and absolutely no qualms about enforcing them.”

“The Welsh have a great military reputation as men who enjoy fighting and are good at it. This is probably because they find fierce and bloody warfare a pleasant and tranquil alternative to dealing with their womenfolk.”

“The Welsh enjoy talking. They talk incessantly. They talk passionately. They talk about anything. Two aspects of Welsh conversation can confuse outsiders. The first is their habit of mocking what they hold most dear. The second is the way they argue most violently with those closest to them, because they know what they can get away with. A casual listener, hearing the raised voices and the name calling of the most personal and insulting variety, might have difficulty in telling a normal discussion between two close friends from the start of a blood feud.”

“Welshness is an attitude of mind-sometimes psychopathic, often generous, usually friendly and always passionate”

Ooh, I just had a thought, poor Krudd will never now get the chance to show O’Bummer around our lovely city. Aww…

nhand42 said :

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.

Australians don’t vote for Prime Ministers. We never have. We vote for reps. The party with the most reps takes power. The party in power decides who will be Prime Minister. It has always been this way.

This is not the USA. We don’t vote for a president.

Yes, we vote for our local members. Just goes to show the intelligence of the average (probably Labor) voter. And I note that Ms Gillard herself was saying things like “When I’m elected by the voters I’ll move into the Lodge…” Krudd’s got a lot to answer for – he started this presidential style “I’m elected by the voters” crap.

You can take the girl our of Wales…

But you cannot take the Welshness out of the girl…

“UPDATE: In the press conference the Prime Minister designate announced she won’t move into The Lodge until she wins an election.”

Not bloody likely

The AFP won’t allow her to live anywhere but a heavily protected property

Now we just need to get Katie to trump Jon before Lizzie steps down or Julia loses an election and we will have women Governing all the way up to the Queen! Who said women couldn’t rule the world!

Rawhide Kid No 2 said :

I think that renouncing her UK citizenship would have been thought out when she first entered politics.

Extract:

Your extract is an overview of the Section that I mentioned (Hint: maybe I’m already familiar with it?), but you overlook the fact that the (paraphrased) interpretation of the High Court was only made -after- Julia was elected. 😛

If someone was keen, they could probably try to find out exactly when she formally renounced, just so they can form their own Australian brand of the US’ birther movement.
I’m not so fussed, I don’t particularly have an axe to grind, simply enjoy the idea of sending her haters off on a paper chase just to satisfy themselves.

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.

Australians don’t vote for Prime Ministers. We never have. We vote for reps. The party with the most reps takes power. The party in power decides who will be Prime Minister. It has always been this way.

This is not the USA. We don’t vote for a president.

The Spoilers might find Julia a different proposition to the Earnest Nerd.

Good on her – best thing Labor have done all year – Kevin can vanish into obscurity for all I care but I’ll still vote for The Libs with reluctance solely on economic management grounds.

Skidbladnir said :

Pommy bastard said :

She’s WELSH for goodness sake, hide the family silver….

Oh dear.
Having a red-header lawyer woman lead the nation you’re fine with, but if they dare put leek or laverbread on the Parliament House menu, will you renounce your Australian citizenship?
*crosses fingers and hopes*

Just as a minor point, and to give all you haters something to mull over, given that she was born in Wales…
Does anyone know exactly when Julia Gillard renounced her United Kingdom citizenship?
(I assume she did it before the 1998 Election that caused the Sue v Hill Decision, I just don’t know the date.)

I think that renouncing her UK citizenship would have been thought out when she first entered politics.

Extract:-
Section 44 of the Australian Constitution is a section of the Constitution of Australia that deals with restrictions on who may become a candidate for election to the Parliament of Australia. Subsection 44(i) asserts that any person “under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power” is not eligible to stand for Parliament. This has generally been interpreted as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are not permitted to stand.[1] Additionally, subsection 44(iv) prohibits anyone who “holds any office of profit under the Crown, or any pension payable during the pleasure of the Crown out of any of the revenues of the Commonwealth” from serving in Parliament.

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.
I don’t know why I am feeling so betrayed? It is after all politics – dirty, deceitful and underhanded. Australian politics at its best. Bring on Don Kee.

I hate to bust your bubble, But………… We don’t vote for a (the) Prime minister. We vote for the Party and the local representative for that Party. The elected party appoints the Prime Minister for this country.

She’s WELSH for goodness sake

Exactly. Why haven’t the mainstream media picked this up!

My god, last time I was in Wales I was stuck in a pub for three days as it was pissing down rain.

Sounds terrible. I suspect it stopped raining after 20 minutes and you failed to notice if my experiences in Welsh pubs are anything to go by!

Pleasing to see the ALP still acting on the proven good advice from the NSW right.

These are the people that brought you Latham and a succession of NSW Premiers and accompanying weekly ministerial reshuffles, resignations and promises to do better.

bd84 said :

Awesome, she can create some new records as 1st woman Prime Minister and for one the shortest length of time as serving Prime Minister when we vote these douches out later in the year or early next year.

She only has to last a week to beat Forde’s record.

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.

The problem with this statement has already been pointed out, but given the Labor campaign’s Kev-centricity at the last election I’m not surprised that a number of people believe that they actually [i]were[/i] voting for him. I’m not entirely in touch with the average voter, but there’d have to a bit of a backlash brewing on this point.

I will welcome, and submit to, our new Ranga ruling class that will reign over us benevolently.

housebound said :

PB: Care to explain your outrageous slur on the integrity of the Welsh?

What integrity?

housebound said :

PB: Care to explain your outrageous slur on the integrity of the Welsh?

+100, PB put it up there Braveheart.

bd84 said :

Awesome, she can create some new records as 1st woman Prime Minister and for one the shortest length of time as serving Prime Minister when we vote these douches out later in the year or early next year.

Yeah, can’t wait to have Abbott (Howard’s twin brother) as PM …… NOT

Pommy bastard said :

She’s WELSH for goodness sake, hide the family silver….

Oh dear.
Having a red-header lawyer woman lead the nation you’re fine with, but if they dare put leek or laverbread on the Parliament House menu, will you renounce your Australian citizenship?
*crosses fingers and hopes*

Just as a minor point, and to give all you haters something to mull over, given that she was born in Wales…
Does anyone know exactly when Julia Gillard renounced her United Kingdom citizenship?
(I assume she did it before the 1998 Election that caused the Sue v Hill Decision, I just don’t know the date.)

NFH said:
“This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a prime minister that was not voted in by the public”

Maybe you should get an clue about how politics works in this country before making comments on things you don’t understand.

You’ll get your chance to choose your local representative soon enough. Until then, we can judge Julia on her capabilities and judgement (hopefully NOT on her hair, her looks or her gender). Looking forward to it!

Erg0 said :

Postalgeek said :

Bit early to celebrate, isn’t it?

But if you are going to celebrate, surely the focus should be on the first ranga to become Australian PM.

Oh James Scullin, how quickly we’ve forgotten you.

To be fair I’ve only ever seen his photo in black and white 🙂

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.
I don’t know why I am feeling so betrayed? It is after all politics – dirty, deceitful and underhanded. Australian politics at its best. Bring on Don Kee.

move to the us of a, take up citizenship, vote directly for a president and have your gripe at an appropriate moment, but stop watching crap us teev…

australia’s electoral system has you vote for your local member in the electorate in which you live. the party with the numbers to form government based on the seats (electorates) they win does so and the party – not you – elects its leader. stop crying, go back and do some civics – oh, that’s right, we don’t have civics on the curriculum in schools, do we, julia? – and harden up.

Postalgeek said :

Bit early to celebrate, isn’t it?

But if you are going to celebrate, surely the focus should be on the first ranga to become Australian PM.

Oh James Scullin, how quickly we’ve forgotten you.

NFH said :

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.

What are you talking about? Both were elected by their constituents! When you marked the ballot, unless you were in the appropriate electorate, neither Kevin nor Julia would have been listed.

I don’t know why I am feeling so betrayed? It is after all politics – dirty, deceitful and underhanded. Australian politics at its best. Bring on Don Kee.

No argument on that point.

Well, labor’s in for another term IMHO.

the Labor voters who hated Krudd but couldn’t under any circumstances vote for the mad monk (would have to be 90%+) will now be able to settle back, vote Labor in the lower house, Greens in the upper and thus make sure that the looney Libs have a chance to develop some relevancy instead of getting office by being the least worse choice.

PB: Care to explain your outrageous slur on the integrity of the Welsh?

The Tilley’s connection? Read between the lines;

Gillard’s partner is Tim Mathieson, a hairdresser. She does not have any children

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard#Personal_life

But dear god, has no one seen the real risk here yet? She’s WELSH for goodness sake, hide the family silver….

Skidbladnir said :

Kate Lundy’s take on it (with bonus potential for swinging the internet censorship bill back into sane(r) territory.

Excellent. Thanks Skidbladnir

“Not to mention that 38 million that Little Kevvie spent on selling the potential super-profits tax that Julia just announced will be cancelled”

The commercials that is. Not necessarily the tax itself.

arescarti42 said :

Awww, poor Libs, all the effort they put into their just released Kevin O’Lemon ads will have gone to waste.

Not to mention that 38 million that Little Kevvie spent on selling the potential super-profits tax that Julia just announced will be cancelled.

This is not about Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard. This about Australia having a new prime minister that was not voted in by the public.
I don’t know why I am feeling so betrayed? It is after all politics – dirty, deceitful and underhanded. Australian politics at its best. Bring on Don Kee.

Kate Lundy’s take on it (with bonus potential for swinging the internet censorship bill back into sane(r) territory.

shaneb said :

+1 to what Mr Evil said.

It will be interesting to see if Gillard announces a front bench reshuffle. Almost the entire IT industry expects Senator Conroy to be replaced by local girl Kate Lundy sooner or later. Sooner being preferable.

Would that (likely) mean, no more internet filter and finally an R18+ rating for computer games in this country?

Awww, poor Libs, all the effort they put into their just released Kevin O’Lemon ads will have gone to waste.

Sorry but I couldn’t help laughing at Kochie’s reaction over at Channel 7. He was so indignant at the decision. Looked like he didn’t know wether to burst into tears or punch someone 🙂

I was confused about the Tilleys association too. I had heard it was a girls hang out (if you know what I mean) but what are we suggesting…………………?

What’s the Tilleys connection? I’ve not lived in Canberra very long.

Bit early to celebrate, isn’t it?

But if you are going to celebrate, surely the focus should be on the first ranga to become Australian PM.

astrojax said :

like, how is this canberra news, o riot act..? 😉

the big question: will julia have the lodge painted pink to ram the point home?

and i love the fact that australia now has a PM who, for the first time since bob hawke, sounds stryl’n!

No, no, no, you’ve got it all wrong. She won’t paint the Lodge pink, it’ll be monkey bum red, to match her hair (as the crew at Cactus like to call it) 🙂

“like, how is this canberra news, o riot act..?”

Did they move Parliament House to somewhere else?

“and i love the fact that australia now has a PM who, for the first time since bob hawke, sounds stryl’n!”

And the first in a while who when they smile looks like they mean it.

Many in the public service cheering in their cubicles right now! Perhaps no more ‘urgent’ demands for things 24/7 for them to sit in the PM’s office unactioned for weeks or months!

astrojax said :

like, how is this canberra news, o riot act..? 😉

the big question: will julia have the lodge painted pink to ram the point home?

and i love the fact that australia now has a PM who, for the first time since bob hawke, sounds stryl’n!

That’s the tilleys angle! Jeez!

+1 to what Mr Evil said.

It will be interesting to see if Gillard announces a front bench reshuffle. Almost the entire IT industry expects Senator Conroy to be replaced by local girl Kate Lundy sooner or later. Sooner being preferable.

like, how is this canberra news, o riot act..? 😉

the big question: will julia have the lodge painted pink to ram the point home?

and i love the fact that australia now has a PM who, for the first time since bob hawke, sounds stryl’n!

Who cares if the new prime minister is a woman, anybody is better than Krudd! Good luck to her, but I will still vote Liberal – wouldn’t trust the Labor party with anything, they’re run by the unions and that will never change.

Awesome, she can create some new records as 1st woman Prime Minister and for one the shortest length of time as serving Prime Minister when we vote these douches out later in the year or early next year.

WAHOO!

Good to see some of the usual suspects behind this coup, including the likes of Arbib and Shorten.

Shorten – famous for his 15 mins of fame in sounding indignant about worker’s safety being compromised by greedy bosses whilst he was riding on the back of publicity surrounding the rescue of two miners trapped in TAS; and for being a fairly useless junior minister for Disabilities. Would make a better circus clown than anything else.

Arbib – famous for allegedly telling PS staff not to deal with Peter Garrett about the home insulation program, but to deal directly with Arbib and Kevin – until it all went pear-shaped! I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could kick him. If it looks like a rat, it usually is a rat!

No doubt Kevin will be lumbered with all the blame for the BER stuff ups too so that Julia will look squeaky clean!

Go Julia!!!!!
How exciting.
I do feel sorry for Kevin (what happens to him now?).
But I am so happy for Julia, and for Australia to have finally put a woman in a position of real power and influence.