So Rudd has been pushed out of the front bench in Julia Gillard’s cabinet reshuffle, despite Rudd wanting a ministerial portfolio. Further evidence of Julia Gillard’s vindictiveness and desperation for power. Gillard is obsessed with power. Consider the following.
As far as anyone can tell Gillard has limited interests outside of politics. Apart from her de facto partner and parents, Gillard has no hobbies or personal pursuits and no fall back if her life in politics fails. By her own admission she has put career ahead of family and has rejected the central institution of society, marriage. Politics is therefore everything for Gillard. Failing at politics would be like failing at life. Probably in response to this, Gillard staged a photo op yesterday with the Fairfax media with some rent-a-friends in a Canberra cafe. She looked awkward.
Gillard has shown the desperate lengths she will go to further her own case by stabbing her ‘friends’ in the back and lying to the public and her leaders, both in 2007 and now in 2010. When push comes to shove Gillard is not about to give up her life to tell the truth to her colleagues and the voting public. Politics is her life and failure would be a crushing blow to a person with such limited life experience and interests. Is this the sort of person we want running the country? Such an emotionally unstable and fragile person. Take away politics and Gillard has nothing left.
So when Gillard says she is interested in negotiating with the mining industry over the ALP’s absurd tax can anyone take her seriously when she also tells her ‘friends’ in the media she wants a deal after the election? Or when she claims she believes in success being rewarded and not punishing those that play by the rules. Not exactly the approach she took in claiming the PM’s office. And then she has to explain the single biggest waste of tax payers money in Federal history with the childishly named Building the Eduction Revolution. $8 billion wasted, millions of which went to her union mates via state construction fees, which no doubt will be passed back to the ALP’s re-election fund.