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However, with the Labor Party in disarray following the departure last night of a number of high-profile ministers and apparatchiks, Rudd 2.0 will be a harder sell. His new team may also face a backlash from female voters displeased with the unceremonious 11th-hour dumping of Australia’s first female Prime Minister.

Emerging red-eyed a few hours after the defeat, Gillard made a dignified valediction speech and wished her former colleagues success. She also lambasted the opposition for an appalling string of sexist attacks. In 2007, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan said Gillard was not fit to lead the country because she had chosen not to have children and was thus deliberately “barren.” Earlier this month, a dish on the menu at a $1,000-a-head Liberal fundraising lunch was described as “Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail —?Small Breasts,, Huge Thighs and a Big Red Box.” And only hours before the leadership spill ?on Wednesday?, ?Liberal? frontbencher Christopher Pyne compared ?Gillard? to Lady Macbeth?.? “Being the first female Prime Minister does not explain everything about my prime ministership,, nor does it explain nothing,” Gillard said. “What I am absolutely confident of is it will be easier for the next woman,nike air max mens MORE,, and the woman after that and the woman after that, and I am proud of that.”

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She went on to list her administration’s achievements: reforms in health and public schooling, a new disability-care regime, the introduction of carbon pricing and Australia’s contribution to the war in Afghanistan. Missing was her government’s failure to contain a wave of 25,,000 asylum seekers that has crossed Australia’s maritime border in the past 12 months (despite the vast sums spent on the problem). Then there’s the economy. Australia has been enjoying the sort of solid economic growth that nearly every other government in the developed world would envy, but the nation hasn’t forgiven Gillard and her outgoing treasurer Wayne Swan for promising to balance the budget.