Kim Beazley

Surprise, surprise. Just as the Prime Minister is winding up a highly successful India visit, up pops the headline magnet, Kevin Rudd.

Oh noes. She fell. Pic: Digitally altered. Obviously.

A pattern is emerging where any advance made by the embattled PM is immediately body-checked by her vanquished predecessor - and particularly so if her success involves his treasured turf of foreign affairs.

It didn’t help that Ms Gillard had a nasty tumble approaching a final doorstop interview in the Indian capital - her awkward face-plant caught on television cameras and beamed straight back to Australia.

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  • marley says:

    06:06pm | 19/10/12

    @Admiral - ah well, we’ll never know, will we?  You just seem like a solid shoe type of guy to me. Read more »

  • Brad says:

    03:55pm | 19/10/12

    Gillard’s fall has got just as many views on youtube as her speech. Tell that to the MSM. Read more »

 

When Kim Beazley resumed the Labor leadership in early 2005 he faced the freshly re-elected John Howard - by then the nation’s second longest serving prime minister.

Cartoon: Warren Brown

“Naturally speaking, if I had my druthers, I would rather have your record than mine,” he noted warmly congratulating Howard on the milestone. It was a welcome reprieve from the verbal violence of his predecessor Mark Latham and a perfect example of why Labor had gone back to him.

“On this occasion, as in no other period of time in his prime ministership, the Prime Minister has spoken for the whole nation, and that includes all of us,’’ Beazley continued, referring to Howard’s response to the Indonesian tsunami.

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  • Mike says:

    09:50pm | 02/06/12

    What about Lex Luthor: Ruler of Australia ? (as per Superman 2) Read more »

  • JoniM says:

    11:06am | 02/06/12

    Terry, all I can say is .................Scoreboard ! Not the ..........................Interchange Bench ! Read more »

 

Well it’s official: we’re at war with Alabama. Rather than being conducted in a conventional sense this war will be one of utes vs trucks, and fought between men wearing AC/DC shirts on one side and Metallica t-shirts on the other. Fortunately all will be sporting mullets.

If you’re not sure why this war has been declared it’s the fault of comedian Robin Williams. He had the audacity to joke that Australia was basically a country made up of “English rednecks”. This drew an embarrassing sub-par comeback from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who suggested that Robin Williams “should go and spend a bit of time in Alabama before he frames comments about anyone being particularly redneck”, he told Triple M radio. (Of course he has to say “frames comments” rather than just “calling us” or something.)

Now the Governor of Alabama Bob Riley has bought into the conflict, putting out a statement today saying he his rather confused by all this.

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  • Syd Bourne says:

    01:25am | 06/04/10

    Since when did Australians lose the ability to laugh at themselves? How seriously do we take ourselves? We good at dishing it out to e.g. Poms and others, BUT not so good at taking it? Lighten up Oz and have a laugh at a great comedian Read more »

  • ME says:

    01:42pm | 05/04/10

    Rudd waited until we had our “5 super hornets that put us on a war footing” before taking on ole Alibamiee!!!! I they are shaking in their reddy boots haha. Read more »

 

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