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Will Gillard "unravel"?

October 13, 2010

Gavin Atkins on Gillard's first 100 days:

As is traditional, since 100 days have passed with her as Prime Minister, I reckon that it is worth collecting some of these things together:

• Prime Ministerial Admirer in Chief Annabel Crabb reveals a past incident where Gillard conspired to lie to Parliament regarding her ignorance about health policy.
• In the early part of her Prime Ministership, Gillard says she is going to fix up the asylum seeker issue and names East Timor as an off-shore processing centre. While an agreement might yet be salvaged, at the time she never bothered to tell anyone in East Timor before announcing the plan, which was summarily rejected.
• After criticising Tony Abbott for months about not really supporting parental leave, a leak reveals that she argued against it in Cabinet. 
• Gillard promised about a week out from the election that there would be no carbon tax under any Government she led. Barely a month later, she breaks the promise.
• Swearing in the new ministry, Gillard stumbles over the name of a Senator, but more astoundingly, forgets to name a Minister for Indigenous Health or anyone who is responsible for tertiary education.
• In a prepared speech to Parliament about the National Broadband Network, Gillard provides two bogus quotes, effectively misleading Parliament. 
• Julia Gillard appears to have flat-out lied, or else forgot, about being briefed on Tony Abbott’s visit to Afghanistan.

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Like all good disasters, there are always clues, and my bet says that this one is going to unravel in spectacular fashion.

Source: The ShadowLands