Gillard PM?
June 20th 2010 03:02
As the wagon to depose Rudd as ALP leader accelerates, more attention is being paid to Julia Gillard as potential PM. Indeed, she looks a shoe in further down the line when Rudd eventually quits. But how good is she?
Gillard is another ALP clone - student politics then labour law - and she has learned all the right lessons about how to succeed within the labour establishment. And she is a competent performer in parliament and in the media. Similarly, her ministerial work has been adequate.
But this was true of Rudd too, and herein lies the problem. Labor needs a leader who can do all this and oversee good policy formation as well, especially on climate change, peak oil and economic reform.
Where are the signs that Gillard can do this? She handles the No 2 role well, but she does not have to own up to policy failure in this position as the leader does.
Of course, a genuine policy expert, Lindsay Tanner, is still around, but ironically he might get knocked off by the Greens in his own seat.
Gillard is another ALP clone - student politics then labour law - and she has learned all the right lessons about how to succeed within the labour establishment. And she is a competent performer in parliament and in the media. Similarly, her ministerial work has been adequate.
But this was true of Rudd too, and herein lies the problem. Labor needs a leader who can do all this and oversee good policy formation as well, especially on climate change, peak oil and economic reform.
Of course, a genuine policy expert, Lindsay Tanner, is still around, but ironically he might get knocked off by the Greens in his own seat.
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