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#539409 - Thu Jun 24 2010 12:42 AM Australia's first female PM
Copago Moderator Registered: Tue May 15 2001 Posts: 14384 Loc: Australia	We got a new Prime Minister down here today - our first female one. SMH story Interesting times ..
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#539410 - Thu Jun 24 2010 03:47 AM Re: Australia's first female PM
ozzz2002 Moderator Registered: Mon Dec 03 2001 Posts: 20912 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	You have to love the way party politics works. Just last week, all the ministers said that Rudd had their 'full support'. Those words should be enough to have any leader quaking in their boots! I have still not formed a real opinion about Julia Gillard. She seems like a tough nut, which I suppose you would have to be as ACTU leader. Hopefully she can get things back on track before the next election, and I believe that she just might. Whether the Australian electorate sees it that way remains to be seen. The ladies are really taking over, eh? A female PM sworn in by a female Governor-General, with female Premiers in two states, too. _________________________ The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it. Ex-Editor, Hobbies and Sports, and Forum Moderator
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#539411 - Thu Jun 24 2010 07:07 AM Re: Australia's first female PM
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	I see the Australians are now importing Brits to become PM. She was born in Wales. _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#539412 - Thu Jun 24 2010 07:19 AM Re: Australia's first female PM
MarchHare007 Enthusiast Registered: Wed Aug 08 2007 Posts: 222 Loc: Jilliby NSW Australia	Well as long as she doesn't welsh on any deals she might be all right. _________________________ "Shoot for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars." ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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#539413 - Thu Jul 01 2010 08:27 PM Re: Australia's first female PM
tezza1551 Enthusiast Registered: Tue Feb 05 2008 Posts: 439 Loc: Western Australia	Will be interested to see if she is prepared to take an interest in rural issues. As WA currently has a state premier who is totally unaware of the state outside the city...and in the city, only his mates at the top end of town matter... _________________________ “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!”
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#539414 - Thu Jul 08 2010 10:00 AM Re: Australia's first female PM
Tizzabelle Multiloquent Registered: Sun Jan 17 2010 Posts: 2507 Loc: Sydney NSW Australia	Tezza, I don't know if JuGi (as I hear she's called now..) knows that there is a rural landscape in Oz apart from quarries. I don't know how she's going to go. That announcement involving Timor Leste and illegal immigrants was a cracker. Imagine involving another country in your plans to do anything and not clearing it with them first!? It's like she was thinking out loud. The one person in the Timorese govt she approached has no legal standing to make any decisions on behalf of the govt or even speak for the govt of Timor Leste (as far as I know). I wish her well. After all, I don't want this wonderful country of ours to go down a plughole. I'm don't think JuGi is the answer to our woes though. I hope she proves me wrong and if she does I'll be the first to say so! _________________________ A platypus lays eggs and produces milk - it can make its own custard
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#539415 - Fri Jul 16 2010 06:13 AM Re: Australia's first female PM
Copago Moderator Registered: Tue May 15 2001 Posts: 14384 Loc: Australia	Didn't think this deserved it's own thread so will tack it on here. Don't you love the verbal fight between Hawke and Keating at the moment? http://www.smh.com.au/national/hawke-camp-sidesteps-keating-spray-20100715-10crs.html?autostart=1 I can hold a grudge longer than most people I know but Keating takes the cake!
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