Will Gillard “unravel”?
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.
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