After a whole lot of strife over the past few days, last night our time Kevin Rudd announced that their would be a caucus over leadership between him and Julia Gillard.

He was originaly planning to go on with the vote, but it seems that at the last minute he decided to just step aside (mostly to avoid the humiliation of being voted out as leader by a huge margin).

What realy makes me laugh is that SECONDS after it was announced on the news (before it was even confirmed, as in, as soon as the news said it), the wikipedia article was updated, and I am sure that many people got the "an edit happened while you were making your edit" error as well.

So, Australia now (well, later today after she is sworn in), has its first female prime minister.

Though I have to say that unless she realy makes some good changes, the Labor party is going to have a lot of trouble when the election comes later in the year, as this sort of drama so close to an election is never good for votes.

Though I have to say, Kevin Rudd probably ticked a lot of people off in his announcement last night when he said that he was elected by the Australian people (which is not true, he was elected into his seat by his electorate, and elected to Prime Minister by his party), and then went into what can only be described as an election campaign.

You hear that America? You may have a partially black president but we have a 100% female one! A U S! A U S!


Unless she's hiding something >_>

Is she a total MILF?

I want to see a birth certificate before I'm convinced that she's female.

lol dundeeboys

Id hit it with a car

Dude you could really crank on those earlobes.

It's not that ba..
Her ears...

Damn, her head is big. BP should try drilling it for oil.

Find me a picture of a hotter prime minister =p

dont say something like that unless you want someone to post pictures of Thatcher out of spite.

Psh, I almost posted a picture of her as comparison anyway, but laziness prevailed

Her second term as PM of Ukraine ended in March this year:

Prime Minister of My Soul

MEANWHILE...


IN AUSTRALIA

Welcome to the 70s.

Crikey!

Haha, that evil ****. Who knows? Maybe our next president will be Sarah Palin. I'll probably kill myself (no hope left in humanity) or move to another country though...

How many crocodiles did she have to fight to get this position?

I think it's strange that out of the 2 Australians that I've met neither of them knew who Steve Irwin was. R.I.P. Crocodile Hunter. Whatever happened to Paul Hogan?

So is she still a bat**** insane rightwing person?

Bat**** insane leftwing, actually. Her opposition is a militant rightwinger that was a Rhodes Scholar and a boxing champion, so I'm looking forward to the debate.

I'ld love to see her 'down under'.

It's not that strange. I only heard of Irwin about a year before he died.
He was never popular here. Of course, now that he's died they're trying to make him an icon, but that's not working either (thank gods).

There was a magazine that had a full two page article about just how much of an idiot Steve Irwin was, but a few months later, a couple of weeks after his death, the same magazine listed him as our #1 Aussie hero.

Where as the day he died, if you went to an American forum everyone was discussing the terrible tragedy, and if anyone said anything bad about him you'd be flamed into oblivion. The Australian forums were filled to the brim with Irwin jokes (some people found out he died via joke text messages).

So, as an Aussie, I don't find it strange if a fellow Aussie doesn't know much about Steve Irwin, what I find strange is how popular he was in the USA.

It shouldn't be. He was not very unlike some of the characters we have in the southern states (Note: Not generalising all southern folks in that statement). Pretty much anywhere with a swamp, bayou, or the 'glades had a bunch of people like it. Plus, americans thought of him as a real life Crocodile Dundee.

Who would win in a fistfight:

Julia Gilliard or Elena Kagan?

Obama was elected in the 70s? Holy crap!

I don't think Gillard is even in Kagan's weight class.