Remember Kevin O’Lemon? Now we have a new advert, just in time for Labor’s leadership ballot tomorrow morning at 10am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (11pm GMT): “Lemons never change their spots”: [tube]4Cj6w83yueM[/tube] All I am hoping for is that whoever… Read More ›
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Kevin Rudd resigns as Foreign Minister
Our dysfunctional Labor government limps from crisis to disaster and back to crisis again, as Kevin Rudd finally pulls the plug and resigns. Julia Gillard is expected to call a leadership ballot on Monday: THE Gillard government faces days of… Read More ›
Gillard finished as Australian Prime Minister?
The governing Labor party is in turmoil. Polling shows an election now would sweep Tony Abbott’s conservative Coalition into power in a landslide. Julia Gillard has lost the trust of the public, and her own MPs, after a string of… Read More ›
Lemon, Lime and Bitter
On the anniversary of his final squeeze into the gin and tonic of history, the Liberals resurrect Kevin O’Lemon in preparation for a possible return of Rudd: The Government had “lost its way”, Ms Gillard said. Well, twelve months on… Read More ›
"Horror poll" for Gillard
The Sydney Morning Herald tries valiantly to put a favourable gloss on this (see here), but in the end, it’s lipstick on a pig. Gillard is sinking faster than a Pacific island. And to add to Gillard’s woes, Kevin 747… Read More ›
Gillard and Swan wanted to abandon ETS
That would be the same Gillard and Swan who are now trying to railroad through a carbon tax in breach of an explicit pre-election promise not to. To discover this fact, all The Australian had to do was check its… Read More ›
Labor Nightmare: The Return of Rudd?
Kevin Rudd was in good form on Q & A last night, breaching cabinet confidentiality to reveal that senior Labor figures were against an ETS, and leaving open the possibility (heaven forbid) of another go at the leadership. Another great… Read More ›
Rudd's foot on the first rung of the UN ladder
Secretary General here we come? Tony Abbott rubbishes Joolya Gillard’s “part-timer”: DUMPED prime minister Kevin Rudd has accepted a part-time role on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s panel on global sustainability. Tony Abbott immediately seized on the unpaid appointment to… Read More ›
Election 2010: Desperate Gillard begs Rudd for help
From the “You Could Not Make It Up” department. Just weeks after savagely knifing Kevin Rudd in the back and stealing the prime ministership, Julia Gillard is now relying on Rudd to rescue her disintegrating campaign: THERE are now three… Read More ›
Kevin Rudd "in line for UN climate job"
Our socially-disfunctional-verging-on-autistic ex-PM would fit right in at the UN, spouting platitudes about saving the planet and the evils of capitalism whilst being whisked off to all-expenses-paid climate gab fests in exotic locations around the globe. At least at the… Read More ›
