Spill resolved.... \o/

[samvara]

Prime Minister Gillard

...bloodless Parliament House coup.

ETA: We have a ranga PM! And, you know, the first female leader of Australia.
ETA: missyjack's lovely summary

Comments

[sara]

My goodness. Parliamentary democracies always seem so exciting, though I guess my democracy was kind of exciting itself, today. Are congratulations in order?

YES THEY ARE!

[samvara]

First female Australian Prime Minister!

Also politically, despite being a member of the Labor Party, she is far more aligned with the left (me) than the now deposed K. Rudd.

Re: YES THEY ARE!

[sara]

Oh, well, we always want more leftist women in power. And by "we" I mean "leftist women."

Re: YES THEY ARE!

[samvara]

There has been a shortage! Yes.

I think I may need a t-shirt...

Re: YES THEY ARE!

[ironed_orchid]

It almost makes up for the witch hunt of Carmen Lawrence by Richard Court all those years ago...

Aww, t-shirt.

[autumnus]

grats... (I think?)

[samvara]

Holy Heck yes, all the women at work are giddy :)

First female Australian Prime Minister!

[samvara]

Yeah the next election is suddenly looking less like a battle between Evil and Even_More_Evil...

[ironed_orchid]

You do know that the right is currently in power in NZ?

[ironed_orchid]

Ok. I just see similar arguments all the time based on this idea that another country is free of troubles just because it doesn't have the exact same troubles in ones country of origin.

[starlady]

Wow. Cool!

[samvara]

Very cool!

[ironed_orchid]

I KNOW!

SO VERY AWESOME!