[Oe List ...] FW: IT'S A GIRL! Julia Gillard Bumper Edition

[frank bremner]

Some further comments on the Gillard ascendancy.

 

Cheers

 

Frank Bremner


Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:45:15 -0400
Subject: IT'S A GIRL! Julia Gillard Bumper Edition
From: eureka at eurekastreet.com.au
To: fjbremner at hotmail.com





CRIME AND JUSTICE: The 2010 Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival, featuring the presentation of the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award and the Margaret Dooley Award, will take place at Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne on 16-18 July. Session times and tickets









MONDAY 21 JUNE 2010 




It's a girl! 
MOIRA RAYNER 
The importance of a woman getting the highest political post in the land is not in its being a 'first', but that Gillard is her own woman. She has not turned into an 'honorary bloke'. Gillard's singular attribute is her sincerity and the genuineness of her public conversations. And she can laugh. Read more | Listen





ANALYSIS 




Goodbye Kevin, hello Julia 
TONY KEVIN 
We have just experienced a Shakespearean moment. There is real excitement in the land, a sense of new beginnings, as the Elizabethan figure of Julia Gillard takes the reins as Prime Minister. Rudd, to his credit, has accepted the inevitable with grace and dignity. Read more | Listen





COMMENT 




Gillard's win a loss for feminists 
CATHERINE MARSHALL 
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader is a woman. Read more | Listen





ANALYSIS 




Moving forward with Gillard 
TONY SMITH 
If there is any vestige of democratic socialism left in Labor, the Gillard Government needs to raise taxes without apology, knowing its social welfare policies are just and necessary. It also needs to remain committed to redistributing wealth to eliminate huge discrepancies in living standards. Read more | Listen





BOOK REVIEW 




Remembering Rudd 
EMILY MILLANE 
In early 2008, 89 per cent of us thought Rudd to be a 'man of vision'. Recall his essay on Bonhoeffer in The Monthly; the promise of a politics of decency and equality; the Apology; the ideas summit. After that it all goes a bit foggy. Read more | Listen











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