Poor Kevvy D':
Today -
Something -
Kevin Rudd -
I just -
Seriously -
What is this, I don't even -
...Hold on, give me a moment...to collect my thoughts...
Okay.
Kevin Rudd has stepped aside from the role of Australia's Prime Minister. He has been replaced by Julia Gillard. Today, Gillard has made her place in history books as the nation's first female prime minister. This has all just happened this morning.
I didn't find out until this afternoon. My mind is blown. Mine, as well as the rest of this country's mind, is utterly blown. You know what? I think I know what it was like to experience the The Whitlam Dismissal...only except the situation and the causes of which are very different, Rudd is not overbearingly arrogant about it all (and it seems that he has given up his position by will), everybody does not despise Bryce with the firey, burning hatred of a thousand suns and Gillard is not a "curr".
...Okay, so the situation is nothing like The Whitlam Dismissal. BUT it is by one factor: the whole suddenness of it all. There wasn't any indication or clue that K-Rudd was about to be kicked off his pedestal. It was a situation that kept to itself and exacerbated inside the Parliament House all within 24 hours and the rest of us only just realised what was happening this morning (thanks to the always-persevering press), when Rudd had finally made his resignation. I feel terrible for poor old Ruddy (he was crying during his final speech as Prime Minister. D': I really do feel for him.) After all, he was a good PM; perhaps not the best, but a good one all the same. He was particularly a great Prime Minister symbolically; I admire him for apologising to the Stolen Generations: something that the Government should have done a long time ago. He did have many fall-backs however, like his attempts to economic stimulus and the proposed internet filter which was doomed from the very beginning...but, I must admit, he was all around a pretty good bloke.
The thing is that, even though my mind is - still to this very moment - blown away and that I do like Rudd, I'm not distressed by the fact that Gillard has taken over. Mainly because, in consideration of their policies, she's not going to be completely different to K-Rudd in terms of leadership. After all, she was the Deputy Prime Minister. And because their policies will be very similar, I feel that I can place my hopes for Gillard in bringing forth a more modernised and tolerant Australia; to change our country for the better.
So, it seems to me that nothing has gone hay-wire as of yet - and nothing will depending on how Gillard will fare. But I trust that she will do fine...and, as long as Abbott stays well out of Prime Minister-ship, I do believe that everything will be, indeed, fine. >__>
Something -
Kevin Rudd -
I just -
Seriously -
What is this, I don't even -
...Hold on, give me a moment...to collect my thoughts...
Okay.
Kevin Rudd has stepped aside from the role of Australia's Prime Minister. He has been replaced by Julia Gillard. Today, Gillard has made her place in history books as the nation's first female prime minister. This has all just happened this morning.
I didn't find out until this afternoon. My mind is blown. Mine, as well as the rest of this country's mind, is utterly blown. You know what? I think I know what it was like to experience the The Whitlam Dismissal...only except the situation and the causes of which are very different, Rudd is not overbearingly arrogant about it all (and it seems that he has given up his position by will), everybody does not despise Bryce with the firey, burning hatred of a thousand suns and Gillard is not a "curr".
...Okay, so the situation is nothing like The Whitlam Dismissal. BUT it is by one factor: the whole suddenness of it all. There wasn't any indication or clue that K-Rudd was about to be kicked off his pedestal. It was a situation that kept to itself and exacerbated inside the Parliament House all within 24 hours and the rest of us only just realised what was happening this morning (thanks to the always-persevering press), when Rudd had finally made his resignation. I feel terrible for poor old Ruddy (he was crying during his final speech as Prime Minister. D': I really do feel for him.) After all, he was a good PM; perhaps not the best, but a good one all the same. He was particularly a great Prime Minister symbolically; I admire him for apologising to the Stolen Generations: something that the Government should have done a long time ago. He did have many fall-backs however, like his attempts to economic stimulus and the proposed internet filter which was doomed from the very beginning...but, I must admit, he was all around a pretty good bloke.
The thing is that, even though my mind is - still to this very moment - blown away and that I do like Rudd, I'm not distressed by the fact that Gillard has taken over. Mainly because, in consideration of their policies, she's not going to be completely different to K-Rudd in terms of leadership. After all, she was the Deputy Prime Minister. And because their policies will be very similar, I feel that I can place my hopes for Gillard in bringing forth a more modernised and tolerant Australia; to change our country for the better.
So, it seems to me that nothing has gone hay-wire as of yet - and nothing will depending on how Gillard will fare. But I trust that she will do fine...and, as long as Abbott stays well out of Prime Minister-ship, I do believe that everything will be, indeed, fine. >__>