Australian political update

From JOHN PASQUARELLI

 

Julia Gillard continues to amaze me as her lack of political savvy is exposed as this election campaign progresses.

Thrust dramatically into the spotlight by the messy disposal of Rudd, Gillard displayed an appalling lack of basic understanding of the mechanics of politics in her dealings with East Timor over her version of a boatpeople policy that blew up in her face. 

There is now a third person involved in this election and that is Laurie Oakes who has now struck twice with leaks that has Labor apparatchiks looking nervously at each other. 

Will Oakes make further strikes?

Some journos have praised Gillard for her handling of the serious leaks involving her questioning of parental care and increased pensions change but these geniuses failed to even think about Gillard’s past involvement with a conga line of massive economic blunders. 

Where were Gillard’s forensic skills when the killer pink batts scheme was being dreamed up along with all the other disasters including her own BER?

 Have the punters forgotten all about Gillard’s doomed Medicare Gold plan in 2004? 

Julia Gillard’s political psyche was created by her very active role in the Socialist Forum – in reality a rebadged Communist Party. 

Come polling day will voters be conned?