Eve’s Daughter

Obviously written after Kevin Rudd was deposed as Australia’s Prime Minister – he made history by being the first elected P.M. not to make it through his first term and Julia Gillard made history at the same time by becoming Australia’s first female Prime Minister. Wow, two history making moments in one event! An event I just had to capture in poetry.

At first I was quite happy about Gillard deposing Rudd - if an election had been called right then and there I probably would have voted Gillard and Labor! However, now that euphoria has cooled and I’ve looked back on what happened and how it happened, I have reservations. Add to that Labor’s policies, or lack thereof, on Asylum Seekers, Climate Change and Mining Tax (which I wouldn’t mind actually if the money was then going to be used to research and set up sustainable and viable environmentally friendly energy alternatives, farming, business, housing, infrastructure etc) to name a few and I find I am very unhappy with Labor.

So now I watch and wait and research all the other candidates for this election because, although I am unhappy with Labor, I can’t say I’m over the moon about any of the other political offerings in Australia at the moment either!

Click on Gillard Versus Rudd to open the poem in a new window.

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