Australia's First Female Prime Minister

Forever said:
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.
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Oh she's definitely an intelligent person with a good set of morals. I hope she really is a good Prime Minister because she's a good person and I'd hate to see that disappear. What I'm saying, I guess, is that she will no doubt make mistakes while in power but I'm really hoping I don't get a reason to dislike her because she's one of the few politicians who have an honest feel about them. Well, more honest than politicians usually are anyway :S

But yeah, as for the whole woman thing, I don't really care whether the Prime Minister is male or female, it makes no difference to the job. Just because other women are manipulative it doesn't make Gillard that, nor will she be better than other politicians because she is a woman.
 
Uh to be honest, I realised I kinda read the posts wrong. My bad. I don't really care what gender the Prime Minister is, I just think the whole way it went, like how she stood up to Kevin Rudd and challenged him, is more of the historical moment.

But I can't say the first female prime minister isn't of importance either after having so many male Prime Ministers, breaking the so called gender dominate role.
 
Rudd was ****, I am so glad he's gone, I've always liked Julia Gillard, she's kind of quirky in a funny kind of way, she seems more down to earth and willing to listen.

Now lets just hope Australia are smart and do not vote Abbott instead of her at our next election :S

Although, if she keeps rudds retarded internet ideas then maybe i do want abbott... or maybe I'll vote for the greens :P
 
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. :|
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I have made no such argument. I was simply pointing out the gender differences in psychology. If you even read my post and considered our past you'll see that males almost always have leadership roles compared to females, because it was better that way due to the ways our minds work. Yes there are exceptions, but this is generally the truth.

I don't know why you're wishing us congratulations for "exploring this option." It wasn't Australia that really put her into the position. Yes she was a minister of parliament and thus is able to become leader of her party, but when the Labor party was voted for in 2007, they were riding on the popularity of Kevin Rudd, not Julia Gillard. Do you understand?

o0PinkSquid0o said:
Although, if she keeps rudds retarded internet ideas then maybe i do want abbott... or maybe I'll vote for the greens :P
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I vote for the Greens is a vote for Labor, and lolgreens.
 
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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It's kind of like when Iceland chose Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir as Prime Minister and lots of people only noticed that she was the first openly gay leader to ever have that position anywhere in the world.

Of course how good a leader a person is is most important, but it's also important to note things like this. If we were living in the year 2090 and Australia (or any country) hadn't had any women leaders wouldn't that cause you (the anybody 'you') to raise an eyebrow? Would you think that there hadn't been any capable women leaders in that whole span of time or would you think that there was something up with that society? People are simply noting that we're at a historical moment.
 
I just pray that Julia Gillard doesn't become some overly sensitive, sexist PM who has a bad case of PMS.

The way I see it, a leader can be white, black, male, female, green, yellow, orange, brown or rainbow. Looks and gender don't play a part in leadership.
 
But yeah, as for the whole woman thing, I don't really care whether the Prime Minister is male or female, it makes no difference to the job.
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This, and I'm kinda finding it annoying tbh to see all of the media, etc to shout GILLARD'S FEMALEEEEEE! at me. Firstly I;m not blind, secondly it's...not that amazing a thing, and seems to me that labor may try to get her in for some voters just because she's 'omg the 1st female pm'. =/ May not be necessarily the case but ehhhh. Sure it's the fact that she is the first I guess, but frankly I'm more concerned on how well she'll run the country which isn't exactly in great form.

That said I am currently undecided on her (besides that her speech and question-time-stuff shows she is very good at being vague and dodging questions like a pro). But certainly her becoming PM shows that Labor as a party is in a mess (chucks out its leader and tries to tell us all is fine), and the fact she was last week herself saying 'oh it's all fine, no trouble here, more chance me playing rugby than being PM! ^^'...so much for that (never mind how silly it is to be deputy PM and not have it cross you mind that maybe one day you'll be PM. -_-). Another doubt of mine is that as said she was a big supporter of Rudd and many things Labor did that ended up wrong (such as that education funding mess), and the ETS lol (but that's another debate =p). Sure if she scraps that stupid internet censorship idea it's a nice start but she's going to have to do more than that imo to lead a party desparate enough to change leaders so very quickly and half a year or less before election. =/ Also someone mention how intelligant she is....well idk, the ability to dodge questions and use big words is great at making one look smart but how good is it with actually running the country? I'd expect her to be witty with questions and words given she was a laywer but that's just one small part of the job. Call me a cynic but I don't buy into that so easily - lotsa people before appeared smart on the surface and turned out to be not so with being a politician or whatever other job they do/did. And hey, Kevin 07 himself looks fantastic to a lot of voters a few years ago and look at him now! =D

Up to her though, so we shall see. Abbott is not looking that bad to me atm - but then for some apparently him wearing 'budgie smugglers' because he's part of the surf livesaving club and so forth is poor form, and him saying stupid stuff? I've yet to see a MP not say stupid or questionable stuff, Gillard included. At least he has the support of his party and doesn't back down from policies so easily like Rudd did (and I commend him for blocking the ETS seeing how huge that was without any proper research done by the government. Especially in that if it had been passed then we'd look all the siller after copenhagen's non-action; billions, towards a trillion dollars into something not actually quite proven and just guessimated? Oh dear...).

Maybe I oughtn't post when braindead but OH WELL politics are best discussed in such states. =p
 
We have fools, damned fools, and then we have the leaders of the Labor Party. Julia Dilltard is no different. That badass Abbott ought to hurry up and get his finely toned body into The Lodge.
 
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