Julia Gillard's demise shows Australia is not ready for a woman leader
Three years almost to the day the Australian Labor party sharpened its collective knives, ousted Kevin Rudd as leader and installed Julia Gillard as the nation's 27th – and first woman — prime minister. At 7pm on Wednesday, in an equally spectacular and bloody knifing, Rudd returned the political favour, wresting the leadership from his nemesis by a decisive 57 votes to 45.
The poll, held behind closed doors, ends one of the most tumultuous prime ministerial tenures in the nation's modern history, and ensures that, if nothing else, the word "brutal" will become the default adjective to describe Labor politics, Aussie style.… Seguir leyendo »