Reasons you will hate me

She shoukd use this opportunity to wage war on Denmark.

Always lording it over us with their alternative energy resources.

I'm quite thrilled.

i don't mind one bit... in fact, it quite impresses me.

I love it!

Begorrah! A fanta-pants in the driver's seat!

Love your work, Julia!

It's awesome. First person I've been genuinely happy to see in that office for a very long time.

Nice one Jules.

Quite an historic day really and she handled the morning show interviews with grace and humility. On a bit of an aside, is the Rudd Govt still being held accountable to the Don't Fuck It Up campaigners? Personally I think it should continue. Or doesn't that make me a Democrat?

Today should be free red icy pole day in honour of the occasion.
I like a fox from the west of this great city, they have many captivating ways

it's bloody special isn't it?

thank god it's not some pearl and twin set knob from the other side, who i woudn't give a stuff about....

but i do, and it's so brilliant because it's the beautiful, ginger-topped, mellifluous-voiced julia ...

you go girl!

A victory for us rangas! Hopefully this is just a precursor to a more permanent state of events. Ah Julia...you have taken my heart and swaddled it in faith for the future.

I have nothing, absolutely nothing, against a woman in the top job. Honestly. But this one? You're kidding......within 6 months she will stuff up something major, and Rudd will go down trying to protect her. She's just not that bright.

*thinks* "acting Prime Minister Gillard"

*swoons*

Look at her! So graceful and dignified. She should be put on a postage stamp at once!

Well, she's smart enough to keep getting elected to parliament.

...wait, Joe Hockey, is that you?

Donkey:

When you say "she's just not that bright", it'd be fantastic for all of us, if you could provide some supporting arguments to show why you think that way.

Last time I checked, Gillard was dux of her high school, flew through two university degrees, was partner at a law firm at 28, elected to federal parliament at 37, promoted to the front bench five years later, has slayed every one of her Lib opponents in debates about immigration, health and IR and is now deputy PM.

Or do you automatically set the bar higher for women?

*reads iftfap's comment*

*claps*

Aaah Julia, go you labour lady leader, go!!

I'm just so excited!!!! Yay JULIA!!!

Her Prime Ministership sends a missive:

Chicks rule!

Well that one does

Donkey lives up to his handle ....... stupid and stubborn, but I'd bet your dick is real tiny Donkey!

Well done Bomba, we've reduced ourselves to personal insults. The last bastion of the truly uninspired.

I believe Julia, in spite of her impressive credentials, lacks the emotional intelligence and depth of creativity to be successful in this role. My opinion; you are entitled to yours. I thought this blog was about intelligent, spirited debate? (note to Bomba)

but Donkey - you didn't answer the challenge.....what on earth makes you think she's not 'that bright'?

What about her dismissal, without evidence, of nuclear power as a reasonable power source and a means to achieve our targets under Kyoto? The only reason France has achieved it's Kyoto goals is that the majority of her power is nuclear.

That said, Julia is impressive on her feet in a debate. I hope i'm proved wrong.

fair enough donkey - entitled to your opinions absolutely. but if you can call her 'not that bright' - simply because she (I'm takin a stab here) is not idealogically aligned with you on the nuclear power issue....

not really an indication of intelligence i'd a thought?

gracious under pressure, wicked sense of humour, a thick skin AND smarts to boot.

I fell in love with her election night and continue to do so a little more everyday.

Hope is a bloody nice note on which to end a tough year.

Fern, tell you what.....I may have (just may have mind you!) unfairly extrapolated information in reaching my initial conclusion. I commit to giving Julia a fair and objective hearing over the next few months, and assess my position then. If I feel she performs well, I'll be the first to admit I was wrong.

Merry Christmas all!

Bless you Donkey

I am givin' 'em both their 100 days.

only fair.

This whole nickname for redheads thing. It guffaws me no end. It's great to a see a - dare I suggest it - period piece in the top job.
Toodles.

Talking about nicknames for red-heads. What about fire-crotch? I like the imagery.

Hellglitter, ew, no...

I've liked her since she was on Mick Molloy's 'Tough Love' radio show... but she sounds a little too much like Kath Day-Night for me to be fully enamoured with her.

This blog is about intelligent, spirited debate?

God, I feel so embarrassed, I'm in completely the wrong place. I thought this was the blog for jokes about llamas.

It is true she academically well versed, but why does she sound like a cat going through a band saw backwards. The truely intellegent can argue both sides of a debate, I don't think fanta pants has it in her..

Julia Gillard is not a natural redhead. She dyed her hair. People who dye their hair red deserve none of the usual kudos.

The truly intelligent can argue both sides of a debate.

The truly intelligent who are politicians make sure they never actually do it.

And I bet fanta pants knows how to spell truly. Not that good spelling is as important in the real world as rounded vowels, obviously.

sydney. sydney. sydney ?? oh come on. i will never , ever get to run into. it is so unfair. i mean sure, i don't play a guitar or any other instrument. i sing so bad, i just mouth the words, even at home, under the shower. but i did play a kazoo in grade 6. it was the pink panther theme. are you solely going there for the money.? just think of the shitty coffee. i am a little saddened by this.

though , on the plus side, all of us fans of yours get to hear you everyday. but that means i cant listen to ABC classics anymore.

Shitty coffee? Sydney?

Maybe you were trying to say shift key and it just came out wrong.

Did anyone read Donkey's:

"...within 6 months she will stuff up something major, and Rudd will go down trying to protect her"

as Rudd having to GO DOWN on her?

Bloody eyesight ...

Come on,

Look at that pasty skin, she has to be a redhead.

Marieke has pasty skin, and she's not a redhead.

No the first ranga..... Jim Scullion (PM for the ALP 1929-1931) was also a redhead.

God dammit a Red head......I had one of those once...did me blind and then ran off with a ming vase and my only original Picasso!!!!
Still the way she used her hips it was worth it!!!!!!!! Made an old man very happy!!!!!!!
Another seductive communist..hehehehe....Come here my little pretty. Let me show you how grand a conservative can really be!!!!!!!!
Anyway your days are numbered....As I type this right wing forces are gathering and the coup is on its way........Line up the lefties and bang!!!!! A right wing super revolution!!! Dont worry lefties..we use stainless steel bullets..Only the best!!!!!

Jeez, I can't see ahead for all the ferking exclamation marks...
Now look here, my Mum was a redhead, albeit a white-haired old lady now, and she told me once that I was conceived on a train. Now, before you assume that she was a Scarlett O'Harlot let me inform you that she and my Pa were on a three-day train journey up to the North-West Frontier of Pakistan at the time, doing the humpy-pumpy in their own compartment.
Any of you mob out there know where you might have been conceived?

You impertinent twat...How dare you criticize my exclamation marks!!!!! They are like me, straight up and robust, like all 101 year old gentleman should be!!!! So there!!!!!!
I was conceived during a Tiger hunt in Injia. Apparently my father was feeling a tad amorous and went at in a canopy on the back of an elephant. Apparently it put my fathers back out and he was unable to bag a Bengal that day. Most disappointing. Still I'm sure a stiff brandy relieved some of the pain. Bloody conservationists. Now all I'm allowed to shoot is a doped up rabbit or the odd leftie who comes into view.
HARDWICK!!!! Damn it has anyone seen my man???My toenails need cleaning....

Well, I'm a redhead and I'm bloody fantastic, thank you very much. And I think I need to make use of the term "fanta pants" far more often, because it's hilarious. Right up there with Mister Splashy Pants.
Yay Julia!

Julia should enjoy the temporary gigs while they last. Can't see her ever getting to sit in the big chair permanently. It'll be interesting to see who follows Rudd as leader, even if it takes a couple of terms and/or an election loss before they shift him. My money would be on Combet or Shorten.

Also, Margaret Thatcher is pretty much the flagbearer for ginga PMs.

I've seen a school photo of our Fanta in Chief when she was about 12 and she was ginge then.

Hmmm ... while I don't think Julia is going to destroy the government, I don't think she makes a particularly exciting leader. Take, for example, her pathetic appearance on "Insiders" in Rudd's stead on the Sunday before the election. She was merely a robotic bumper-sticker generator that whole interview, refusing to state that the ALP was still the party of the Left (despite being from the Socialist Left herself!!) and refusing to speak up for compassion and human rights when in government. The interview was sickening, and left me feeling incredibly betrayed. Don't get me wrong - she's a decent performer who won't make a mistake and may even get to be a rather dull leader given enough time. However, she'll never be the light on the hill.

Personally, I think the next great leader of this country since Keating is going to be McKew. Of all the speeches on election night, hers was the one that moved me, that stirred my soul. She has the passion that Rudd and Gillard lack, and I think she will make a brilliant PM if given the chance.

@Bemused.

I'd love that to happen!! But don't be surprised if Rudd and Gillard (Those PR savvy slimey undead automatons that we all love) suck the cerebrospinal fluid from Granny Smith Dancing McKew. I mean, we all thought Peter Garrett had some crazy-cool oz rockin' alopecia epilepsy thing until we realised he was as spineless as he was hairless and then that wasn't quite so cool. Loggers and paper mills in Tassie FFS!

Anyway. Peace Out, Bokay.

Ahhh some sanity finally prevails and we realize that our fledgling left wing govt is as tied to the poll driven sensibilities of political reality as the previous born to rule right wing demi gods....
Politics is about perception not reality. Orphans will still starve in far off Africa and our climate will continue to degrade regardless of the signing of bits of paper labled Kyota. Human kind accept one truth..YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE, regardless of who runs things. People will be less well off than others, Uni will be expensive as will healthcare. It doesnt matter if little Red or Little Johnnie is running things...In a year everything will be the same.
Oh whats the point talking to any of you. Idealalogues!

I didn't get to the supermarket last weekend, so for two days at my house, Promite was the Acting Vegemite.