Last week I posted some fluff about our new prime minister, Julia Gillard and how excited I was that Australia finally had a female PM. *Shakes purple and green pom poms*
My words got picked up and quoted on Global Voices, a very cool but new-to-me website, in a post entitled Australia: Dramatic Fall of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
You're after incisive political commentary? LOOK NO FURTHER.
Ha.
And now we return to our original programming.
Showing posts with label Prime Minister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prime Minister. Show all posts
Monday, July 12, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard: Something to celebrate
In Australia we are all still reeling from the news that K-Rudd (Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) was booted/stepped aside from the prime ministership yesterday morning (depending how you look at it), and into the helm stepped Julia Gillard ... who is a woman! Our very first female PM, in fact.
There's a lot of grumbling going on, but also a lot of celebrating. I for one think it's absolutely fantabulous that after a long history of Old White Men PMs we have a woman (and a ranga!) bringing a bit of diversity to the portraits that hang in Parliament House.
To make it even more exciting, she was sworn in by Australia's first female Governer-General, Quentin Bryce.
Before the discontent sets in, before we all start objecting to her policies and labeling her appointment to PM as sneaky and underhanded and a trillion other nasty and probably undeserved things, perhaps we can pause for a moment and consider this: it's the beginning of the end of Old White Men being the only candidate for rulers of this country. Maybe one day a female PM won't be such a novelty.
Until then, go Julia! I'm gunning for you. And I'm a bit proud of you too.
There's a lot of grumbling going on, but also a lot of celebrating. I for one think it's absolutely fantabulous that after a long history of Old White Men PMs we have a woman (and a ranga!) bringing a bit of diversity to the portraits that hang in Parliament House.
To make it even more exciting, she was sworn in by Australia's first female Governer-General, Quentin Bryce.
Before the discontent sets in, before we all start objecting to her policies and labeling her appointment to PM as sneaky and underhanded and a trillion other nasty and probably undeserved things, perhaps we can pause for a moment and consider this: it's the beginning of the end of Old White Men being the only candidate for rulers of this country. Maybe one day a female PM won't be such a novelty.
Until then, go Julia! I'm gunning for you. And I'm a bit proud of you too.
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