According to Julia Gillard, the reasons she moved against Kevin Rudd last year to take over as Prime Minister included:
“We had lost a sense of purpose and plan for the future,”
“We didn’t have a clear plan as to how we were going to deal with a set of difficult questions or a clear plan, generally, about where the Government was driving towards. What I’ve done as Prime Minister is inject that sense of clarity of purpose.”
Really? I must admit I’m struggling to see it. Her government does not convey to me that it has a meaningful sense of direction nor the ability to carry out actions needed to achieve whatever its apparent direction is.
On the day she became PM, Ms Gillard said Labor was a good government that had “lost its way” and she specifically named the super profits mining tax, asylum seeker policy and climate change as the three problem issues.
Well, she dealt with the mining tax by largely caving in to the miners, the asylum seekers by cobbling together a half baked East Timor proposal which has now morphed into the Malaysia one, which is heading rapidly down the debacle path, and climate change, well we had the abortive citizens’ forum idea and then the announcement of a half baked, seriously under-developed carbon price/tax policy.
So really Prime Minister, if that is your idea of providing direction and clarity of purpose, I think you’re deluding yourself. The impression I get is more of making shit up as you go.
