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!
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?
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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.”
27 2 / 2012
Australian Political Dustup Leaves PM Gillard Firmly Planted with Both Shoes on Her Feet
Some 18 months ago Julia Gillard defeated unpopular sitting Prime Minister and Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd and became Prime Minister of Australia, the all-in-one country and continent, home to about 21 million people.
Last week, Rudd quit his day job as Minister of Foreign Affairs to return to Parliament to try and unseat Gillard, an intra-party move in Oz that would be kind of like Hillary Clinton deciding she wanted to overthrow President Obama.
It didn’t work. As reported in The Spectator Australia, Gillard beat back the challenge “by a record 71 to 31 votes.” And the so-called “most unpopular Prime Minister in the history of Australia” lives to govern another day. Having recently made world headlines when an Australia Day near-riot by a group calling themselves the Aboriginal Tent Embassy forced Gillard’s security team to hustle her out of a restaurant, losing her shoe in the process, this Iron Lady lands with both shoes firmly planted on her feet - at least for now.
Australia’s Labor Party is similar to the American Democratic Party, opposed by the oddly named Liberals (read: Republicans). But, the Labor Party shenanigans set off by the return of Rudd (or “K Rudd” as the even more “most unpopular Prime Minister in Australia” calls himself) causes the Labor Party to resemble the current US GOP clown car of candidates for President.
Yikes. What has the Land Down Under gotten itself into?
Source: The Spectator Australia and KazzaDrask Media.
