06-25-2010, 02:42 PM
Only last month she said she was more likely to become a football star than replace her boss. But in a brutally efficient move driven by bad opinion polls and the approach of a general election, the Labor party dumped Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for his 48-year-old deputy. On Thursday Gillard was sworn in.
At a news conference that capped one of the most abrupt transitions in Australia's often-bruising political history, Gillard said she accepted the job "with the greatest humility, resolve and enthusiasm." She immediately sought to refocus attention on the popular decisions of the government in which she served for the past 2 1/2 years, while distancing herself from mistakes attributed to Rudd. http://news.in.msn.com/international/art...386&page=3
At a news conference that capped one of the most abrupt transitions in Australia's often-bruising political history, Gillard said she accepted the job "with the greatest humility, resolve and enthusiasm." She immediately sought to refocus attention on the popular decisions of the government in which she served for the past 2 1/2 years, while distancing herself from mistakes attributed to Rudd. http://news.in.msn.com/international/art...386&page=3