Yes, Julia Gillard’s dismantling of Abbott was long overdue, and he deserved it.
But we need to be wary of treating Gillard as some sort of hero—feminist or otherwise. She was and is no friend of the oppressed or the dissident.
She was unforgettably shown up four years ago by a real Australian hero….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbbC6jPpohg
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Morrissey5.1.1
She was a union executive, sure. So is Greg O’Connor.Te Reo Putake5.1.1.1
No, she wasn’t Moz.- She was the head of the Australian Students Union, I thought.I like her, by the way, and recognize her great people skills and her intellectual ability. I’m just disappointed with her.Ditto with Helen Clark and Barack Obama.
- Quite correct, but a student union is a different beast to a labour union. She was a lawyer specialising in industrial law and contracted to the Aust. Workers Union.Why are you disappointed with her? She answered the rapey one’s pompous question pretty well, I thought. She was very honest and open replying to it.
- Why are you disappointed with her?Because of her lack of character, so apparent when she casually told lies in that studio: 1.) Her sleazy equating of Assange with drug-traffickers and murderers; 2.) that preposterous claim that she admired Daniel Ellsberg, who blew the whistle on the people responsible for the destruction of Indo-China, but that she couldn’t see the point of publishing evidence of mass murder in Iraq thirty years later: “I simply don’t see the merit in it…I don’t see the moral purpose in it.”She answered the rapey one’s pompous question pretty well, I thought. She was very honest and open replying to it.Assange pinned her down as a traitor astutely, and the reaction of the crowd acknowledged that. She’s a smooth and polished dissembler, so she managed to mask her discomfort with a winsome little giggle—a strategy that no doubt moved her up the Labor Party hierarchy quickly.———-Of course I have to comment on your sad, vicious, preposterous Maoist-style abuse, calling Assange “the rapey one”. You really are a man out of your element; you would have been perfect in some hamlet in rural China, shouting denunciations and foul imprecations at whatever target had been identified by the party. False rape accusations played big in Maoist China, just like in Soviet Russia. Perhaps Marty and Doc will swing by in their flying DeLorean and whisk you off to some place where you can join in with another merry lynch mob.Because you are a dedicated Labour Party man, it is inconceivable that you would deviate from party discipline and admit the unpalatable truth, but I know that you don’t actually believe the nonsense you feel duty-bound to regurgitate.
- The problem with your critique is that it’s based on a false premise. You claim Gillard was lying. However, you only quote the first few words of her answer, which makes you the real distorter of the truth in this matter.Further, Gillard does not equate the accused rapist Assange with murderers and drug traffickers, except in the sense that all Australian citizens get consular help whenever they are arrested overseas, whatever the gravity of the alleged crime. However, I’m happy to go further than Gillard. I believe rape, drug trafficking and murder are similarly serious crimes. So my opinion is that Assange is currently in that select group at least until he grows a spine and successfully defends the allegations.
millsy…
Not to mention she slashed benefit payments for poor single parents.
Murray Rawshark5.2
Gillard was made to look good by comparison with Abbott and Rudd. She was a competent manager, an industrious bureaucrat bereft of any sort of vision. She was about as right wing as FJK, and like him, she misrepresented her agenda. You can see in the video how she immediately moved to associate Assange with murderers and drug traffickers. She did not answer his question about giving information to the seppos in a satisfactory manner at all.- She’s not much different from Helen Clark.Having said that, I’d still prefer either of them to what we have now in our two countries.
- I’d rate Helen above Gillard, but otherwise agree.
