julia tries out for shakespearean tragedy

Oh No - I've seen the lot now.

This is an entirely NEW tack. Bruce Hawker thought up this one too perhaps? Snarls for Keneally - and tears for Julia.

There Gillard stands, taking up the WHOLE of Question Time, in black, mascara running, wiping the tears away, giving us the full throttle Hollywood movie audition performance about the tragedies of the floods.

Herein lies desperation from her masters.

One in all fairness cannot conclude she has no empathy - and she IS a woman after all, and more prone to tears, but perleese Hawker or whomever it is who has encourage this - spare us!

After all, where were the tears when she was IN the Far North? Or at Bligh's shoulder?

One can always ask - to act convincingly - one has to feel the emotion. Perhaps she's really shedding tears for herself?

Do I judge her harshly? I don't think I do. Some, of course, will - or at least give her the benefit of the doubt.

The timing seems odd to me, that's all!