Australia's First Female Prime Minister

I was actually sick today so I was home from school watching it. I've been following the story since they crossed to the news room live on Channel Nine last night while I was watching Hey Hey It's Saturday. I'm glad that Gillard's taken over. Of course they'll have the same policies and all that, but Gillard's a better communicator, I mean already I've actually got an idea of what the Labor Party want to do whereas under Kevin Rudd I was clueless behind all his incredibly boring speeches. I know she's not a pushover either, because my mother is a flight attendant and when Labor were in opposition she was the first one to help out when it came to making sure they didn't lose their working conditions. She's a good public speaker and she has a sense of humour and actually seems Australian, as opposed to Rudd (who would always over-complicate his speeches with made up words).

In short, she's probably going to have the same policies as Rudd did, but she'll have a different style of leadership and the voters will react to this in a more positive way. I reckon she can win the election (or god help us Abbott will be the Prime Minister).
 
*Damn you Asperger's Syndrome*

What I'm trying to say: Woman make good and bad leaders, but everyone has their flaws. I'm not saying they all make good/bad leaders, okay?

Also, I was talking to Droidz. And one more thing:

DOWN WITH CAUCASIAN MALE SUPREMACY
 
Whoa whoa whoa, hold the phone dora, woman are bad leaders? Uh okay. What kind of judgemental comment is that, really. She hasn't even been a PM for one day and she's already getting stereotyped?

Yeah she could screw the whole system up or she could save it, that's something we have to find out. Just because there are those "facts" that woman get PMS or whatever, or have emotional issues, or whatever, not every single woman acts this way. Obviously because she's already in political area, she's been chosen for a reason. So you can't compare Julia Gillard to all those other female prime ministers or presidents or whatever else just because of some stereotype about woman. Because if you realised, men have flaws too you know, not every single one of them, but there are certain people. So you can't judge a book by it's cover.

As for me, I still need to find out more about this, since I wasn't able to watch TV and I was going to read the paper about it, but I left it at work.

But if you've got the guts to challenge the current prime minister to over throw him, obviously you'll have the determination to become a better leader then what the current is.
 
Being challenged isn't exactly right, it's more like replaced since only the political party got to vote and Rudd is also the first PM ever in Australia to leave before his term finished. Also Gillard is said to be getting rid of that internet filter and other stuff, so it's relevant to my interests.
 
Uhh most likely the election will be in October or November (according to the polls / media analysis, or sometime before Christmas, so next year is very unlikely.

Though I remember something about the Victorian election being in December or something, so it can't be in the same month as that either.
 
Zet said:
Being challenged isn't exactly right, it's more like replaced since only the political party got to vote and Rudd is also the first PM ever in Australia to leave before his term finished.
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Challenged is the correct term - to be technical, Julia was challenging his leadership of the Labor Party, not his position of Prime Minister. Because she won, she became the leader of the Labor Party and in turn became the Prime Minister.

As for the Rudd statistic, he's the first Labor Prime Minister to ever leave before his first term finished. Others have lost the position before their term was over before (eg. Whitlam was dismissed by the Governor General in his second term, Harold Holt went missing/drowned in his first term).
 
Eliminator Jr. said:
Challenged is the correct term - to be technical, Julia was challenging his leadership of the Labor Party, not his position of Prime Minister. Because she won, she became the leader of the Labor Party and in turn became the Prime Minister.

As for the Rudd statistic, he's the first Labor Prime Minister to ever leave before his first term finished. Others have lost the position before their term was over before (eg. Whitlam was dismissed by the Governor General in his second term, Harold Holt went missing/drowned in his first term).
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Odd on the news they said he was the first PM ever, oh well, different sources lack the correct information sometimes.
 
Zet said:
Odd on the news they said he was the first PM ever, oh well, different sources lack the correct information sometimes.
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Yeah that's cool. They made a heap of mistakes on the news last night when they crossed over live, Laurie Oaks had to keep correcting somebody in the newsroom, it was shocking, so yeah fair enough.

I've noticed Julia Gillard's very good at side-stepping questions, I was watching the 7.30 Report and she completely dodged a question about the mining tax (but in her defense she did somewhat justify her response by reminding Kerry O'Brien that she'd only been Prime Minister for a few hours).

How long do you think she'll be good in the eyes of Australians? Most politicians have a honeymoon period where people are still getting used to them (as seen for example by Barack Obama in the US and Kevin Rudd in Australia, nothing was a problem for the first few months).
 
Well, she wasn't exactly side-stepping questions, she just... held herself well against him. She avoided the questions that could damage her and in return, she continues to give the public no reason to dislike her other than the whole Rudd situation. Her ability to answer questions though, and her vocabulary, as demonstrated today is just amazing. I really hope Australia notices how intelligent she really is.
 
Kon~ said:
I think this is inspiring!

I love how, recently, the tradition of white, male leader has been broken, first with Barack Obama, being the first black US president, and now Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister!

Kudos to society! Society rocks!
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Female prime ministers are nothing new, Britain had Thatcher for two terms and the current German Prime Minister is female.
 
The woman-hate on this thread has made me glad I don't live in the frickin' seventeeth century. Christ, people. It's the C21. "Because she's a woman / because all of the women I know are horrible and manipulative / because men are superior." are not good arguments against this person's leadership skills. :C Remember that women have only had the right to be leaders in the political sense for around 40 years in most parts of the world (a female PM would have been laughed out of office in 1950's England) and so we have yet to prove our leadership skills and what we have to give to our parties.

Congratulations, Australia. Thanks to Tory-nut Maggie Thatcher the UK won't be seeing a female leader for quite some time now, but it's nice to see other areas of the world exploring this option. \m/

Also, I feel sorry for Amachi considering his views on women. He must know some real d*cks to think that we're all like that. :|

Fox♠ said:
Female prime ministers are nothing new, Britain had Thatcher for two terms and the current German Prime Minister is female.
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Except that Margaret Thatcher was such an embodiment of evil that I doubt we'll see another female PM for a little while now. *shudders*
 
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Pokémon Ranger ✩ Moriarty said:
The woman-hate on this thread has made me glad I don't live in the frickin' seventeeth century. Christ, people. It's the C21. "Because she's a woman / because all of the women I know are horrible and manipulative / because men are superior." are not good arguments against this person's leadership skills. :C Remember that women have only had the right to be leaders in the political sense for around 40 years in most parts of the world (a female PM would have been laughed out of office in 1950's England) and so we have yet to prove our leadership skills and what we have to give to our parties.

Congratulations, Australia. Thanks to Tory-nut Maggie Thatcher the UK won't be seeing a female leader for quite some time now, but it's nice to see other areas of the world exploring this option. \m/

Also, I feel sorry for Amachi considering his views on women. He must know some real d*cks to think that we're all like that. :|



Except that Margaret Thatcher was such an embodiment of evil that I doubt we'll see another female PM for a little while now. *shudders*
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Thatcher was honestly the best PM we've had in 30 odd years.
 
yeh but ruddy really got hurt when the vote come in from the labour party, and he almost cried giving his speachy thingy.
 
It's kind of sad that this is such a big deal. Rather than "Australia has new Prime Minister," everything's reading like the topic, like it's some big shocker that a woman could possibly get elected to such an office. Sad, but not unexpected; I suppose the field is still male-dominated. Still, I think it's rather disrespectful, to say the least.
 
don't you think this is funny


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twocows said:
It's kind of sad that this is such a big deal. Rather than "Australia has new Prime Minister," everything's reading like the topic, like it's some big shocker that a woman could possibly get elected to such an office. Sad, but not unexpected; I suppose the field is still male-dominated. Still, I think it's rather disrespectful, to say the least.
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Well we HAVEN'T had a female before.

Like with Obama, everyone made note that he's black, and being the first black president. Same goes for this.
 
Forever said:


Well we HAVEN'T had a female before.

Like with Obama, everyone made note that he's black, and being the first black president. Same goes for this.
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I guess I'd just like to think that in this day and age, the most newsworthy thing about a particular candidate isn't what's in their pants.
 
Well after 109 years, finally seeing a woman is sort of nice. :(
 
To be honest, it's kinda of hard for you guys to understand all this, you don't live in Australia, so of course it's not a big deal to you.
 
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