Prime Minister Julia Gillard has attempted to appeal to both left and right in the refugee debate by playing a dog whistle and a bongo drum at the same time. Speaking at the Lowy Institute, she outlined a plan to process refugees in East Timor without demonising them in the process. "Now is not the time to blame all our ills on refugees," she said. "That time will be slightly closer to the election."
Kevin Rudd will shortly face a Caucus vote on his leadership, having had his career Bill Shortened. It is now expected that Julia Gillard will become Australia's first ranga Prime Minister. Shocked by the spill, Kevin Rudd has declared that Gillard has launched "the greatest immoral challenge of this generation."
Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek has hit back at criticism of his decision to field a team with no strikers for the team's 4-0 World Cup loss to Germany. The Socceroos' game coincided with the announcement of Queen's Birthday Honours for people who have made a significant contribution to Australia. There were no Socceroos on the list, although Pim Verbeek has received a medal for services to German football.
Read more: Queen's Birthday holiday: Socceroos take the day off
The Australian Labor Party is bracing itself for a difficult election year, after internal research identified Prime Minister Rudd's policy failures and backdowns as a bigger moral challenge than dealing with climate change. ALP polling also shows that for Labor, Kevin Rudd is now a bigger cancer on democracy than political advertising.
Read more: "Greatest moral challenge of our generation" now Rudd's backflips
In a final show of his respect for Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, the Israeli diplomat expelled by the Australian Government has left the country on a forged Australian passport. "I may even kill a Hamas leader on my way home while wearing an Australian flag and singing your awful anthem," the unnamed diplomat claimed at Customs.
Read more: Expelled Israeli diplomat leaves on forged Australian passport
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