09 5 / 2013
The student who allegedly threw a half of a Vegemite sandwich at PM Julia Gillard the other day has been suspended from school for 15 days.
As this interview with the student will reveal, however, not only could more than one student have been involved in the incident, more than one sandwich could have been airborne, too.
No word yet if said sandwiches were tossed from a grassy knoll…
But the student in question, one Kyle Thomson, insists he was protecting the PM, and reports her nose is not as big in person as it appears in photos.
Thanks again to Ashley for the tip!
08 5 / 2013
A half of a Vegemite sandwich was thrown at PM Julia Gillard the other day. It missed her shoes, and landed on the floor.
Read the whole scandalous account here.
Or in sum, PM Gillard was making an appearance at a Brisbane high school. According to one teacher, she was mobbed by students seeking autographs and photos with their mobile phones. The teacher likened the throngs around the PM to resemble more of a One Direction concert than the visit of a stuffy old politician (albeit one with good shoes).
Others claim the PM was booed and called a “loser” before nearly being pelted with one half of a Vegemite sando. No doubt those are the types who prefer to eat shit rather than spinach.
Thanks to my friend and loyal reader Ashley for this tip!
09 4 / 2013
The Australian federal election is still months away, and among other things, it is in danger of getting as ugly as going on as long as those ones they have over in America.
PM Julia Gillard sits about where President Barack Obama sat at this point in the US 2012 presidential election. There are just plain haters out there who have never liked Gillard and will vote for someone else in spite of their best interests simply because the other candidate is not her.
It was the same for Barack Obama, but in the end he prevailed, on the backs of Big Bird, binders and the US cavalry.
Maybe this tweet will be Gillard’s “Big Bird moment”? While thoughtful press is out there (“A Fair Go for Prime Minister Julia Gillard”), if social media savvy plays as big a role in Australian politics as it does in America, Gillard’s got a shoe up.
07 1 / 2013
We learn today that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s taxpayer-subsidised private car has been caught eight times in six months for traffic offences, but whose foot (or shoe) has been on the accelerator?
Read more.
30 12 / 2012
“You can also do this with your shoelaces.”
PM Julia Gillard finger knitting with children at the Woodford Folk Festival.
18 10 / 2012
Julia takes a tumble. Or, as the Aussies say, she fully “stacked it.”
Australian PM Julia Gillard and her shoe made headlines yet again when she tripped and fell near the Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi the other day.
It appears she was wearing her favorite pair of dark blue size 36 Midas wedges, perhaps even the very shoe that was kidnapped earlier this year, when her heel got stuck in the grass and “then the rest of it is as you saw.”
Gillard is no stranger to embarrassing shoe incidents. In addition to the kidnapped shoe that was briefly held for ransom back in January, this “heel malfunction” is the second one she’s faced down this month. Just last week she took a misogynistic male opponent to task for his relentless abuse of her as a woman in charge. Heels, of any kind, may trip her up, but she’s quick to get back up on her feet.
10 10 / 2012
![I will not be lectured by this man about a … Slipper!
Ok, so according to online mag Jezebel, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is “one badass motherfucker!”
But we knew that already. This is a woman who fought long and hard to recover a stolen shoe. Do you think she’s going to back down over some goddang Slipper!? (Pardon the Americanisms in the post so far by us and Jezebel, but we’re Yanks.)
For those not in the know, Australia has a lady Prime Minister who just kicked the butt of her notoriously sexist and misogynistic opposition leader Tony Abbott from here to kingdom come…and back again. Don’t believe us? Pour yourself a strong cup of Joe or a very dry double martini and watch this 15-minute video clip.
Andy Warhol almost got it right. In the future (or now) everyone will get their 15 minutes on YouTube. Madame Gillard (and yes, you will her address her as that and nothing less from now on) took Abbott to task for hypocrisy, too. You see, Abbott, a career misogynist, actually had the balls (temporarily) to demand that Gillard force her Speaker of the House, a man with the all-too-good last name of Slipper, to resign after he exchanged text messages with a gay male staffer comparing female genitalia to a shellfish best served with frites and a nice glass of white wine.
If you thought American politics are dull, well…you were right.
Sure the Shoe trumped the Slipper (he resigned), but the bigger story was Gillard dressing down Abbott who claimed to be outraged by Slipper’s sexist and misogynistic texts. Said faux outrage was coming from a man who has stood with protestors calling Gillard a “man’s bitch”, claimed women who seek an abortion are looking for “the easy way out” and believes the average Australian woman is a housewife who stays at home ironing. And, there are 14 more minutes of this. Including,
If he [Abbott] wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia he doesn’t need a motion in the house of Representatives, he needs a mirror.
You. Go. Girl.
Madame Gillard, as we Yanks who read Jezebel like to say, went on to “rip him a new asshole”. For 15 minutes. A painfully long time.
Barack Obama, take a leaf.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mboji27Jiy1rona5jo1_500.jpg)
I will not be lectured by this man about a … Slipper!
Ok, so according to online mag Jezebel, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is “one badass motherfucker!”
But we knew that already. This is a woman who fought long and hard to recover a stolen shoe. Do you think she’s going to back down over some goddang Slipper!? (Pardon the Americanisms in the post so far by us and Jezebel, but we’re Yanks.)
For those not in the know, Australia has a lady Prime Minister who just kicked the butt of her notoriously sexist and misogynistic opposition leader Tony Abbott from here to kingdom come…and back again. Don’t believe us? Pour yourself a strong cup of Joe or a very dry double martini and watch this 15-minute video clip.
Andy Warhol almost got it right. In the future (or now) everyone will get their 15 minutes on YouTube. Madame Gillard (and yes, you will her address her as that and nothing less from now on) took Abbott to task for hypocrisy, too. You see, Abbott, a career misogynist, actually had the balls (temporarily) to demand that Gillard force her Speaker of the House, a man with the all-too-good last name of Slipper, to resign after he exchanged text messages with a gay male staffer comparing female genitalia to a shellfish best served with frites and a nice glass of white wine.
If you thought American politics are dull, well…you were right.
Sure the Shoe trumped the Slipper (he resigned), but the bigger story was Gillard dressing down Abbott who claimed to be outraged by Slipper’s sexist and misogynistic texts. Said faux outrage was coming from a man who has stood with protestors calling Gillard a “man’s bitch”, claimed women who seek an abortion are looking for “the easy way out” and believes the average Australian woman is a housewife who stays at home ironing. And, there are 14 more minutes of this. Including,
If he [Abbott] wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia he doesn’t need a motion in the house of Representatives, he needs a mirror.
You. Go. Girl.
Madame Gillard, as we Yanks who read Jezebel like to say, went on to “rip him a new asshole”. For 15 minutes. A painfully long time.
Barack Obama, take a leaf.
26 9 / 2012
“She told me, just do what I do. When a reporter asks about my clothes, just say ‘Would you ever ask a man that question?’ and be done with it. But I begged to differ. Because for me it’s not just about the clothes, it’s about that bloody shoe!”
15 8 / 2012
The conversation went like this:
HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand: I heard about your shoe.
PM Julia Gillard: Oh yeah, that.
HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand: I tried to order a pair on Zappos.
PM Julia Gillard: I think you might have better luck on eBay.
17 7 / 2012
“I’m loving this photo op, but I wish these kids would get their dirty feet off my new shoes.”
