SYDNEY - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned yesterday amid growing speculation that he and his backers in Parliament were seeking to topple Prime Minister Julia Gillard and regain for him the country’s leadership role.
Rudd, who was displaced by Gillard in a 2010 party coup, told reporters in Washington, where he was on an official visit, that he had lost his leader’s support and could no longer continue to serve in her Cabinet.
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Gillard put her job on the line yesterday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by Rudd. Rudd’s supporters said that even if she survives Monday’s vote, the turmoil surrounding her unpopular government will continue until she is out.
Funny how governments that do the bidding of foreign powers over their own people get that way.
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Either the Zionist controllers are dumping her or the Australians are throwing off the shackles (to a certain, yet-to-be-seen degree).
"Australia faces leadership vote Monday" New York Times, February 25, 2012
SYDNEY - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd announced yesterday that he would challenge his successor, Julia Gillard, for the leadership of the Labor Party and the country in a vote set for Monday morning.
The move sets up a showdown to end an acrimonious public leadership battle that analysts warn has begun to paralyze the government.
Rudd, who was displaced as prime minister by Gillard in a 2010 party coup, told reporters in Brisbane that he was “sick and tired’’ of being blamed for the failures of his successor’s unpopular government and described the prime minister as incapable of defeating the opposition in elections next year.
The announcement, although widely expected, unleashed a flurry of political maneuvering as both sides sought to use the 72-hour window before the vote to woo supporters in what many here are calling the most bitter political battle in a generation.
Gillard, who is believed to have a commanding but not insurmountable lead over Rudd among the party leadership, fired back late in the day, deriding his appeal to let “people’s power’’ decide the issue as akin to the format of a popular reality television program.
“This isn’t ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ - it is about working out who can lead the nation, who has got the ability to get things done,’’ she said.
In the unlikely event that Rudd wins Monday, there would be an upheaval within the Cabinet followed by snap elections within two to three months.
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I guess the timing of the wire stories the Globe slaps in place in its printed pos didn't connect because I never saw the result of the vote.
But this did come up:
"Australia urged to apologize for forced adoptions" Associated Press, March 01, 2012
CANBERRA, Australia - A Senate inquiry called yesterday for the Australian government to apologize to and compensate thousands of unwed mothers who were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the mid-20th century.
About 100 mothers who gave up babies, and adults who had been adopted, sat in the Senate public gallery, applauding or weeping as the report was read.
Unwed mothers were pressured, deceived, and threatened into giving up their babies from World War II until the early 1970s so the infants could be adopted by married couples, which was perceived to be in the children’s best interests, the Senate committee report found.
Robin Turner, 61, one of the mothers in attendance, wanted only public recognition of the injustice she suffered in ’67 when her newborn son was taken from her at a hospital.
“Acknowledgment,’’ she said. “I want the Australian public to know what happened to us.’’
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