There's nothing voluntary about addiction

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4. I believe that Gillard is committed to reform

The mining tax was a LABOR initiative. If it wasnt for Gillard's negotiation skills we would not have a mining tax at all. (Still yet to get past the Greens in the Senate). Rudd was never a negotiator. He didnt even speak to his own caucus, let alone The Greens or independents. Rudd abandonded climate change when he could have easily taken it to a double dissolution. Rudd was PM during the GFC so I give him and Swan credit for the stimulus package. However, apart from that, except for apologising to the Aboriginals, there wasnt a lot that he achieved during his term.

We have never witnessed before in our lifetime what our Prime Minister has had to deal with. She has a weather vain for an opposition leader who has always used bully boy tactics and who has, at the same time, trashed the parliament, especially question time. She has to deal with independents who have the power to make or break a government. With all this happening, she has to deal with a 24 hour news cycle.