In 2008, the people of America made a huge mistake in electing one Barack Hussein Obama to the Presidency. In 2010, the people of Australia made a similar error in judgement vote-wise and in their political process, found one Julia Gillard as their new Prime Minister. Now, Barack Obama is a half black-half white male and Julia Gillard is a white female but that is where there differences end....Gillard is a dyed in the wool Marxist and so what she brought to Australia was the same bullshit "transformational change" that Obama brought to America.
Well, the people of Australia have had enough with their mistake and it appears they are ready to make a correction.
From the article at Breitbart:
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard dismissed mounting speculation about her future, vowing to stay in the job despite a crushing court blow to the government's asylum-seeker policy.
The nation's highest court on Wednesday scuttled Canberra's proposal to send 800 boatpeople to Malaysia in a huge embarrassment for Gillard and her fragile Labor government, sparking fevered talk that her days are numbered.
The Sydney Morning Herald said the Labor Party was alive with chatter about a possible replacement for the country's first female prime minister, whose credibility was already under pressure before the court setback.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who Gillard ousted last year to take the top job, and Defence Minister Stephen Smith have been touted as potential successors.
Most newspapers ran similar stories with the Sydney Daily Telegraph's front-page headline on Friday screaming "Gillard On Notice", citing senior government figures saying she had "lost her authority".
"This is about authority and whether she can assert her authority because she hasn't got it now," one senior party figure was quoted as saying.
The minority coalition government's popularity is at record lows in opinion polls, with an unpopular tax on carbon pollution adding to its woes, but Gillard insisted she remained the best person for the job.
"I'm not going anywhere," she told ABC radio.
You gotta hand it to the Australians for having the foresight to say "hey, we made a big mistake and instead of trying to make a purse out of a sow's ear, let's just correct it"....while in America, we have a minority of people who insist that they can make Obama work out. So, we shall see which country grows up first - will Australia get rid of this colossal mistake in judgement first? Will America correct its error next year?
The world has centuries of Socialism failures to reflect upon but almost like that human nature tick that leads one to believe that you actually can get stuff in this world for free, we apparently have a subset of the population that feels the need to give Socialism one more shot every 10 to 15 years. It's time to bury this failed ideology....well, bury it after we burn it, once and for all.
Defiant Australian PM vows to stay in the job
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard dismissed mounting speculation about her future, vowing to stay in the job despite a crushing court blow to the government's asylum-seeker policy.
The nation's highest court on Wednesday scuttled Canberra's proposal to send 800 boatpeople to Malaysia in a huge embarrassment for Gillard and her fragile Labor government, sparking fevered talk that her days are numbered.
The Sydney Morning Herald said the Labor Party was alive with chatter about a possible replacement for the country's first female prime minister, whose credibility was already under pressure before the court setback.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who Gillard ousted last year to take the top job, and Defence Minister Stephen Smith have been touted as potential successors.
Most newspapers ran similar stories with the Sydney Daily Telegraph's front-page headline on Friday screaming "Gillard On Notice", citing senior government figures saying she had "lost her authority".
"This is about authority and whether she can assert her authority because she hasn't got it now," one senior party figure was quoted as saying.
The minority coalition government's popularity is at record lows in opinion polls, with an unpopular tax on carbon pollution adding to its woes, but Gillard insisted she remained the best person for the job.
"I'm not going anywhere," she told ABC radio.
"I'm the best person to do this job. And I'll continue to do it. And what this job is about is leading the nation to a better future."
Gillard said her government had taken some "tough" and "bold" decisions and several cabinet colleagues quickly gave her their backing, including Trade Minister Craig Emerson who described her as "a strong leader".
"They (Australians) expect leaders to make tough decisions even if those decisions aren't always popular in the short term," he said.
The government had heralded the Malaysia policy as a sure-fire strategy to deal with the politically divisive asylum-seeker issue and it is currently taking legal advice on what to do next.
The nation's top court found that under Australian law the government could not send asylum-seekers to be processed in a country that was not bound to adequately protect them.
Malaysia is not a signatory to the UN convention on refugees.
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