Julia Gillard- done in, but her policies? Used by the opponents.

Another Seinfeld Election for Australia - Bloomberg: "

And it was all for naught. If there were ever proof that Gillard wasn’t dispatched for her performance, this election campaign is it. Other than co-opting her signature ideas on education, disability care and other issues, Abbott and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have offered nothing new or insightful to voters.

Rudd dispatched Gillard in a party coup three years after she had done the same to him. He claimed revenge wasn’t driving him, but audacious ideas about accelerating growth, raising competitiveness and preparing for the day Australia’s mining boom winds down apparently weren’t either. After calling elections in hopes of profiting from his personal popularity, what has Rudd offered? Hard-line policies on asylum seekers to pander to the right and small-beer tax policies.
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Part of the problem is the legacy of 13 largely wasted years under John Howard (1996-2007) and Rudd (2007-2010) before he returned to power. The heavy lifting done by former Prime Ministers Bob Hawke (1983-1991) and Paul Keating (1991- 1996) turned Australia into a Group of 20 power. It’s now the world’s 12th biggest economy thanks to their steps to float the dollar, open the financial industry, remove import barriers and create a compulsory national pension program. On the economy, Howard and Rudd simply kept the plane on autopilot.
When Gillard proposed setting a price on carbon emissions, when she wanted to shake up education, spread the mining wealth, empower the nation’s indigenous people, and achieve greater gender equality in a “blokey” society, she was leading and reading from the Hawke-Keating script. Rudd and Abbott? Strictly Seinfeld."

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