Gillard continues rise in polls

The latest Newspoll shows Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has gained support from voters as preferred Labor leader.

The poll published in The Australian newspaper is the first since last week's budget and shows Ms Gillard has cut Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's lead from 25 percentage points to just five.

Mr Rudd's standing as preferred prime minister stands at 45 per cent, down from his level of 57 per cent in February.

Support for his deputy jumped from 32 per cent to 40 per cent in the same period.

The poll also shows the Coalition has maintained its lead over the Government on primary votes, 43 per cent to 37 per cent.

The Opposition has also achieved consecutive 50 per cent or higher on a two-party-preferred basis for the first time in four years.

In a separate Galaxy poll published in The Daily Telegraph, 45 per cent of voters backed Mr Rudd against 34 per cent for Ms Gillard as preferred Labor leader.

The ongoing decline in Mr Rudd's popularity fuelled speculation last week that Labor may move to install Ms Gillard as leader before this year's election.

Ms Gillard laughed off the suggestions.

"Not one individual in the Labor Party has spoken to me [about that]," she said last week.

"I'm focused on my job as Deputy Prime Minister."

Ms Gillard says tough decisions are behind the Government's slide and she still supports Mr Rudd as prime minister.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told Macquarie Radio he believes he can win the votes of those who are disillusioned with the Government.

"We have to have a government. It will either be a Labor government or a Coalition government, and I think that eventually all of those that conclude that the Labor Government is not up to the task will come to us," he said.

"But what I've got to try to do in the meantime is demonstrate that we will be a credible alternative, that if you change the government life will be different and better."

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Some background on Ms Gillard.

The archive contains material revealing the radical past of Ms Gillard, including her links to former members of the Communist Party of Australia.









http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/will-julias-past-cause-red-faces/story-e6frf7l6-1111114587478

As I said in another thread:



Trollpaste, I see you are back to your usual habits. !!!!



Now we ALL know this post is NOT anything original from your infantile brain.



So why don't you post an acknowledgment to the source you copy and pasted from.

Health Minister Tony Abbott has accused Ms Gillard of erasing her radical past and her links to the forum.



Yesterday, Ms Gillard said she could not remember the forum discussing radical policies. "It did not adopt policy positions and I don't remember any of the papers being referred to," she said.



Crikey in 2010 we all know - well those with working brain cells - and are well aware that that means she does remember and had hoped no one would be able to dig up her past endeavours at radical reform!

Welcome back Clay. I admire the lady and couldn't give a **** about her past. The way she took on the Teachers Union amid all the threats was amazing, they weren't going to give the tests come hell or high water. Well they did do the tests and it was a great victory for her. I think there are some teachers in our system who are hopeless and have been carried by their peers for years but now they will need to lift their game because of her My School site. She sure has shaken up the teaching profession, never before have they had to face such scruitiny. I only say it as I see it and I can't see how anyone can pick her performance so far.

Thanks for your welcome toot

The way she took on the Teachers Union amid all the threats was amazing, they weren’t going to give the tests come hell or high water. Well they did do the tests and it was a great victory for her.



Well a hollow victory of sorts Toot2k, with more reports coming in about teachers coaching or changing answers afterwards. The number of kids being asked to stay home or not to take the test, I believe will snowball once they start digging. Its my guess some teachers being forced to take part have done everything to sabotage the test and many will have to be taken again.



I knew the woman who was caught red-handed here in SA erasing answers and (from distant memory) she is not one to be dictated to.



Interesting times we have.

We've yet to see the full ramifications of the Builders Retirement fund...also known as the Building Education Revolution.

There have been a number of cases come to light of overblown costs of buildings.

One example was a library costing [b] $850.000.00[/b].

$850,000.00 would build about 4 houses.



The most recent example:

BARELY bigger than a cubby house, canteens built under the federal government's schools stimulus scheme are costing taxpayers[i] $25,000 a square metre[/i].



In NSW, 19 of the school tuckshops measuring 3m x 8m will cost between [b]$550,000 and $600,000 each.[/b]



Orange Grove Public School, in Sydney's inner west, was knocked back on its request for a school hall, but given $550,000 to build a brick canteen[i] too small to fit a stove or even a pie-warmer.[/i]



The materials for the canteen are estimated to have cost $29,680, based on an analysis of the NSW Education Department's materials list, and prices from the building industry costs guide Rawlinsons.



A fitout for a commercial cafe would cost $126,000, according to the Rawlinsons guide. Yet the Sydney school has been charged $308,000 for the canteen superstructure, $81,853 for design documentation, field data and site management - the architectural and engineering fees - and $60,956 for preliminaries, which includes scaffolding, security fencing, portaloos and protection equipment for building workers.[url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/canteen-too-small-for-a-pie-warmer/story-e6frg6n6-1225867479199] Source[/url]

Ms Gillard has ordered a taskforce to look into all of this, at a cost of $14million.

The funding for the BER was set at $16Billion. The task force will not report for at least 3 months.

Stretch it out a little more, and they might not fit it in before the election. Or am I being cynical?

We’ve yet to see the full ramifications of the Builders Retirement fund...also known as the Building Education Revolution.



LOL Koko. I love your humour and how correct you are.



Gillard is patiently sitting, giving Rudd enough rope to surely hang himself. However I doubt if Gillard's faction is powerful enough to push her forward as an alternate leader.



Personally I find Gillard has many annoying habits (same as Abbott). Each question she answers she carefully selects each word (unlike Abbott) so it cant be misconstrued and then attacks the Libs with unbelievable ferocity. Her eyes narrow and she virtually spits venom. God knows how her partner gets on if he is late home from a night at the pub with the boys? If anyone was to back-stab Rudd I believe she is it.



OK so say she gets the top job, will she still implement the same loony policies of her former leader? Simmering union unrest with the teachers and sections of her adapted Work Choices (or what ever it called now) and the BER will certainly come back to bite her on her ample bum.

You are quite a nasty man/woman aren't you Tanwin. Her eyes narrow and she spits venom, her poor partner and her ample bum. Your bias is showing Tanwin and it's getting rather personal.

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OK so say she gets the top job, will she still implement the same loony policies of her former leader? Simmering union unrest with the teachers and sections of her adapted Work Choices (or what ever it called now) and the BER will certainly come back to bite her on her ample bum

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I was gob smacked at the way Tanwin carried on about beautiful

Jesse Watson's teeth. Get a life maybe Tanwin and stop being

critical of people. Are you an oil painting?

btw a gap in the two front teeth are a very good sign and good to have.

I believe Ms. Gillard would make a great Prime Minister but not until

our Mr. Rudd has had his at least second 3 year stint.

You are quite a nasty man/woman aren’t you Tanwin. Her eyes narrow and she spits venom, her poor partner and her ample bum. Your bias is showing Tanwin and it’s getting rather personal.



Me nasty? Oh come now Toot2k, I dont have a nasty bone in my body LOL



Biased? Nope I dont like or trust her.



Oh you mean getting personal like Brianna?



Criticism is part of free speech, just like opinions.

No I meant getting personal about Australia's first ever senior female politician. You mention her ample bum, her poor partner and her narrow eyes. If you are a man I'd call you a chauvinist, if you are a woman, you are a spiteful cow. Cindy Lawper's song 'True Colours' come to mind.

I often wonder if Tanwin is looking in a mirror when she /he is

making these derogatory remarks about everyone but for a

"chosen few" :roll:

Does anyone on this forum ever think how hard it must have been for a WOMAN to climb to the top of the ladder and land a job as Deputy Prime Minister of this wonderful country with people at every turn talking about her little squinty eyes and her big bum and how she must be giving her partner a hard time and oh yes, I've even heard "But she doesn't have any children", as if that makes any bloody difference to the way she does her job. Some of the old blokes on here will understand exactly what I mean, your attitude to women stands out a mile, be quiet WOMAN, you just do what you're told.. For God's sake, have a little respect!

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