[Oe List ...] Aussies, catch us up

[Adam Thomson]

I'm glad colleagues down under responded to the sense of George's 
enquiry, rather than my smart-ass comments about Wales...

I hope we can hear more about Julia Gillard, and what she is likely 
to do in due course.

Love to all,

Adam in Dover UK

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At 23:23 24/06/2010, you wrote:
>Hello colleagues
>
>Yes, yesterday was an historic day in Oz with Julia Gillard becoming 
>Prime Minister.
>We now have a woman, Quentin Bryce, as Govenor General, and Julia as PM.
>And in New South Wales we have a woman, Marie Bashir as State Govenor,
>and a woman, Kristina Keneally (born in the US) as State Premier, 
>and a woman, Clover Moore as Mayor of Sydney.
>
>Wow - not sure what all this means except that the 'glass ceiling' 
>seems to have been well and truly shattered.
>Still have a way to go with respect to equal pay for equal work etc.
>
>We woke up yesterday morning to the news that overnight there had 
>been moves within the Labour party to replace Kevin Rudd with Julia 
>- a couple of recent policy changes, such as deferring legislation 
>to introduce an emissions trading scheme, plus a couple of stuff-ups 
>on a couple of programs rolled out by the government and an ongoing 
>stoush between the government and mining companies over a proposed 
>'super profits' tax, had triggered a large drop in support for the 
>government in 'opinion polls'. With a national election to be held 
>sometime later this year I think the 'back room' boys got frightened 
>and decided to move - Kevin has never had a power base within the 
>party which is unusual - he is a loner and his style of leadership 
>reflected that - he is more a manager - certainly not a 
>'facilitative leader' and sooner or later the other people in the 
>party are going to get tired of not being consulted.
>
>Anyway there are as many opinions as people on why he was dumped.
>
>Hope this throws a bit of light on the situation.
>
>Take care
>
>John Telford
>
>2010/6/24 George Holcombe 
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>Aussie colleagues, I understand from the BBC that you now have the 
>first woman PM, Ms. Julia Gillard, and she was born in Wales, 
>England.  What's up?
>
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10393918.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10393918.stm
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