[fuesquemill]

This has been the funniest week! Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, has been sacked by her party just months before the next election and replaced by the man she ousted three years ago. With the party's support dwindling to about 30%, and the prospect of Labor losing at least half of its parliamentary seats!

I for one am happy...she was an embarrassment to Australia!

[CuittisIL]

That's one of the great ironies here. For now, the electorate clearly prefers Rudd to Gillard, and that's the only reason we now have him. But in policy terms, Gillard has the more impressive record. Rudd's time in office was frantic, but barren. Beyond his great symbolic moments (the apology and Kyoto), his biggest initiatives, such as the emissions trading scheme and his mining tax, fell over. His education revolution amounted to little... both losers.