"the bitch"? That's pretty pathetic. Gillard is dealing with the most difficult situation any Labor Government has had to deal with. They screwed up the election campaign badly, but Gillard finally seems to be acting as was expected to in public. The woodeness and monotone are finally being replaced by someone who sounds confident and informed.
If you have listened to the actual comments and explanations of events by the Government ministers, they have always sounded professional and competent. Move past the sound bites and 'opinion', and you find things are much more complex than they appear at first. Gillard has managed to get many contentious pieces of legislation through while have to deal with not just her own party, but several independents who could sink it at any time. It has taken a lot of hard work, which has paid off. The legislation has had to be a compromise, but the Libs could just stop their pathetic short term game, which they have clearly lost, and work on getting good legislation through for the good of the coutnry till they probably win the next election. Members of the Liberal party have thought the MRRT could have been much better, but because Abbott committed himself to total opposition, they have had no say in making it better. The fact is, that even before it is in, most Australians are waking up to the fact that the mining companies are making extraordinary profits out of resources you can only dig up once, and are now seeing the MRRT as reasonable. The WA government has even increased it's own mining royalties, and it is a Liberal Government. Countries around the world that are resouce rich are also increasing taxes on mining. You are a mug if you don't.
