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Samizdata quote of the day Much like Germany has been forced to grapple with its past — it can neither ignore it, nor celebrate it — Australia’s treatment of Julia Gillard should never be hidden, and certainly not for reasons such as “Everyone hates Julia Gillard”.
– Caroline Zielinksi, quoted by Tim Blair.
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From the main article, this is the crux of it.
OK, let’s make a real piece of TV fiction, an alternative reality in which the mother of Neil Kinnock’s hitherto unknown illicit lovechild from a teenage liaison (impossible and daft, I know, and fiction, but we need a story) flees Wales for Australia with her infant daughter, only for that child to become Federal Prime Minister of Australia, surpassing the biological father she never knew, and reaping all the scorn he would have had, had he made in to Downing Street.
I’m copyrighting the plot, but a packet of cheese and onion crisps might be a tempting offer.
Julia Gillard was sacked by the Labor Party to save the seats of 14 ministers by their own reckoning.
Pretty funny considering the MSM and ABC constantly campaigned for her and relentlessly attacked Tony Abbott.
Many Astrayans found her appalling.
Murder millions or ignore a failed lefty politician in Australia? Yeah, totally comparable, I thought so immediately!
Mister Ed, that would be surreal fiction.
I actually attended the demo where the notorious “ditch the witch” poster was put up.
All the twitterati and presstitutes had a collective dose of the vapours over such a “misogynistic’ and unprecedented, horrific and terrible sign…never before had such abuse been displayed publicly against and Australian prime Minister…etc.
Luckily the left are so much more decorous and restrained when voicing their opinions.
Lets not forget one of her first moves as a lawyer.
She went to kalgoorlie (a mining town) to tell the workers there that rolling over the “widows and orphans” pension fund into her lovers slush fund was perfectly legal and above board.
Heres a contemporary newspaper report of the time, the money went missing.
Now imagine an evil “rightie’ politician with that sort of background.
Gosh, is there any mention of how she elevated herself to the top job, by organizing a coup against Prime Minister Rudd? One barnacled-on leftie, Phillip Adams, even claimed that he quit the Labor Party over this act!
Is there any mention of how she stayed in power because of the votes of one man with misogynist leanings, even whilst she was claiming that she knew what misogyny was and she had been oppressed by it all her political life?
Probably not.
And in one sense, the writer is right- we will always look on those three years with a sense of revulsion, and will have a hard time putting it behind us.
Might also be worth looking at the past of our head of the human rights commission here in Oz.
Thats the one who dumped her disabled daughter .
Note the parts that are her own words, not made up.
Ah yes, frollickingmole, the authentic mark of the lefty intellectual. Humanity in the abstract ? Love and respect. Real ones in the flesh ? Not so much.
Perry de Havilland writes, “Murder millions or ignore a failed lefty politician in Australia? Yeah, totally comparable, I thought so immediately!”
Stalin said, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Caroline Zielinski, a woman so indifferent to human life outside her narrow political concerns that when it comes to comparisons grotesquely dismissive of mass murder she actually outdoes Stalin.
Backstabber Gillard got backstabbed.
Sounds more like Karma to me, I doubt any Australian outside the collection of Labor MP’s involved will lose any sleep over it.
As for the Australian electorate somehow persecuting Labor for their actions? I doubt it. When she started screaming misogyny to silence debate she showed her true colours.
Nobody likes a screeching harpy.
Actually it is the present Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Abbott) who is savagely and unfairly attacked by the media and so on.
The former socialist Prime Minister was supported by the media.
Claiming that the lady was persecuted is a lie – she was supported (often to an absurd level).
And comparing her treatment to the gassing of the Jews by the Nazis is absurd.
I actually attended the demo where the notorious “ditch the witch” poster was put up.
Terrible, shocking, acts of misogyny. Thank goodness the Left would distance themselves from any such attacks on any former female British Prime Ministers.
She was made of iron, so that does not count. Or something.
To be honest, frollickingmole, there is not enough in that quote to allow me to confidently condemn her action. No doubt there were many factors of which we are not aware, and she simply took what she considered the best option for her family and her daughter. Admittedly the way she talks about it seems quite cold, but that might just be her way of dealing with it.
As we all know, witches are made of wood.
Have the Australians learned nothing from their dreadful treatment of the Aborigines?
It seems not if they can commit another atrocity like this.
How odd. People were falling over themselves to commission programmes on Maggie Thatcher, provided they were Hatchet Jobs not Hagiographies, of course.
Hitler has had plenty of telemovies. Of course Julia should get one too.
Paul Keating had a musical, too, but he deserved it.
Yeah, Snorri, a contradiction – who’d have thunk it?
Michael Jennings, goodness, I had forgotten that. Keating! A sample.
PeterT
I had an Uncle and Auntie who nursed a severely disabled child for 2 decades and saw the toll it took on them, I dont actually blame her for making the decision.
What is more offensive is the press gallery which would turn the outrage up to 11 if this wasnt a “left” political appointee. Its the double standards, extremely blatant, with which they protect the “right” sort of people.
It deforms the body politic.
Pete, we Australians avoid such questions by blaming it all on the perfidious British, who left us this mess when they ran for home in 1901. Or we can do what the British do, and blame the French.