Posted on 25 June 2010 by Will O' in Politics
Anyone watching Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s press conference yesterday would have to admit that here is a consummate politician and genuine human being, the likes of which you rarely see in federal politics, and never at the top. The woman actually exudes integrity. Contrary to the opinions of some, she comes to her position without being indebted to factions. Kevin Rudd was removed because he had become a megalomaniac. Gillard will be a consensus leader, the only kind of leader that is effective from the people’s perspective. And best of all, she is not a God botherer. Rudd’s pinch-faced religious views were always a worry. Hopefully, Gillard will show Stephen Conroy’s totalitarian internet bill the door.
We are all pretty well convinced that politicians embody some of the worst aspects of humanity. Thus, if Julia Gillard cannot bring her integrity to work for the people, then it is clear no politician ever will. She’s one in a million.
Opposing her and the Labor Party are a rabble of self-interested puppets of the big end of town, not so much a political party as a cabal of misanthropists. This motley mob hit rock bottom when they chose Tony Abbott as leader. His unrelenting, repetitious negativity is nothing less than a health hazard. Prolonged exposure to his automated vitriol could weaken the immune system, eventually producing in the listener a diminished capacity to think clearly because the only emotion he allows to flourish is hate.
The choice at the next election is clear: optimistic vitality in the service of making Australia a better place for all. Or an Orwellian return to a medieval state of masters and servants.
