Labor leader to remain as Prime Minister after winning backing from two independent MPs:Labor's Julia Gillard will form a minority government in Australia after gaining the support of two independent MPs today.
Labor won the backing of Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, while Bob Katter came out for Tony Abbott, the Liberal leader who hoped to lead a conservative coalition.
This gave Gillard the support of 76 MPs, which will allow her to form a minority government and give Labor a second three-year term. Seventy-four MPs now back the opposition.
The closely contested 21 August federal elections failed to give any party a majority for the first time since 1940.
Gillard, who was born in Wales, became Australia's first female prime minister in June when Labor overthrew Kevin Rudd, who had lost the support of his party.
Last week, another independent, Andrew Wilkie came out for Labor. He had negotiated separately from the three MPs from rural areas who announced their support today. Gillard signed a deal with the Greens on climate change policy in exchange for their support.
Climate change policy has dogged Labor since Rudd was unable to get his emissions trading scheme through parliament, marking the start of his fall in popularity.
Both Labor and the Liberal/National coalition won 72 seats in the election, leaving the parliament deadlocked until today.
Gillard can now continue with her plans to introduce a 30% tax on iron ore and coal miners' burgeoning profits and make Australia's biggest polluters pay for carbon emissions.
Windsor and Oakeshott, who have both championed better communications infrastructure for rural areas, said Labor's plan to introduce a A$43bn (£25.6bn) high-speed optical fibre national broadband network was a major factor in their decision.
Abbott's Liberal party had promised a smaller, slower A$6bn network with a range of technologies including optical fibre, wireless and DSL.
"What this is is a hard decision," Oakeshott told reporters. "There's no question about that. And, on my end, it has been an absolute line-ball, points decision, judgment call; six of one, half-dozen of the other. This could not get any closer."
Windsor said he believed Gillard was more likely than Abbott to work constructively with the independents and govern for a full three-year term rather than call an early election.
During intense negotiations with the independents, both Gillard and Abbott had promised that, if they could form a minority government, they would not later call an early election in the hope of winning an outright majority.
Atheism:
In a broad sense, is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists. Julia Gillard is an Atheist - that is she does not believe in the existence of God
Adultery:
Also called philandery or infidelity, is a form of extramarital sex. It originally referred more specifically to sex between a woman who was married and a person other than her spouse but can also refer to an unmarried women having an affair with a married man. Julia Gillard has been accused of committing adultery with Craig Emerson while he was married with three children.
"Fabian socialism:
Represented the first systematic attempt to amalgamate the capitalist economic model with the thesis of Marxist collectivism, all of this, of course, under the wise and philanthropic leadership of the" elite "native speakers known as politicians." Julia Gillard is a member of the Fabian Socialists. See the article attached below
Feminism: refers to political, cultural, and economic movements seeking greater, equal, or, among a minority, superior rights and participation in society for women and girls. These rights and means of participation include legal protection and inclusion in politics, business, and scholarship, and recognition and building of women's cultures and power. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights. Feminism is controversial for challenging traditions in many fields and especially for supporting shifting the political balance toward women. Some feminists argue that men cause and benefit from sexism; while others argue that all people are harmed by gender roles and therefore that feminism is for women and men. Feminists are persons of either sex, or females only (in which case males may be profeminists), who believe in feminism. Julia Gillard is a feminist.
Julia Gillards Agenda:
- What now for Australia?
Gillard who has painted herself to be a bit of a non-scary moderate, is red at the centre. The media distracts and woos the dumb masses with news about about her latest haircuts, etc (her gay boyfriend Mathieson is a hairdresser.) It is her aim however to re-engineer society, but years of the Left's influence in Labor governments, education and the media has already done that.
As PM, Gillard just looks like another version of Rudd. Pretending to listen to the people, she instead pushes the NWO agenda. Being a non-religious 50 year old woman in a de-facto relationship is nothing unusual in Australia anymore. Gillard simply mirrors what Australia already is, while helping to push it ever closer to extinction in the name of "tolerance."
