Well it seems as if the media is finally wising up to the "real" Julia as a liar, and a distorter of the truth. This woman has no compunction in lying right into your face.
It's a pity it took the media until the last day of the campaign to face up to this. The signs and evidence have been there from day 1.
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Hungry for answers, media pack feasts on panicked PM
Tony Wright
August 21, 2010
IF PROOF were needed that Julia Gillard is getting rattled about the possibility she could be in opposition tomorrow, her last media conference before polling day provided it.
It was, it turned out, one of the shortest media conferences of the five-week campaign.
The reason? The media turned nasty, accusing the PM of becoming so desperate she had deliberately ''verballed'' her opponent, Tony Abbott.
Ms Gillard's press secretary became so alarmed that by questions seven and eight he was calling ''Last question''. By question 10, Ms Gillard's most disastrous performance of the entire campaign was over.
Standing before the cameras at the unfortunately named Confoil food packaging factory in western Sydney, Ms Gillard launched into her now-familiar line that there was a ''real risk'' Australia could wake up tomorrow and find itself with a PM named Tony Abbott. He would, she recited, rip apart everything from the health system to the schools and apprenticeships and put an end to the national broadband network.
And then she lifted her rhetoric to new heights about her contention that Mr Abbott had a secret plan to reintroduce WorkChoices. Why, she said, he would introduce WorkChoices ''by Monday''.
He had failed during the day to rule out changes by regulation to Labor's Fair Work Act, Joe Hockey had been reduced to saying ''yes, if, but'' when asked about a WorkChoices comeback and Mr Abbott had referred questioners to the Coalition's website.
And Ms Gillard, apparently, had found secret code on the website. Anyone checking the site would find ''the following words talking about individual employment arrangements'': ''The Coalition's workplace relations policies will seek to enhance this right.''
Stop the presses: ''These are exactly the kind of words that Mr Abbott used when a member of the former government to sell WorkChoices,'' Ms Gillard declared triumphantly.
The travelling media crew decided to jack up.
''Prime Minister, what does it say about your level of confidence in your positive plan for the future that you've just outlined that you've spent the day wandering around verbalising Tony Abbott?'' she was asked.
The PM returned to the safety of re-outlining her plan for the future and utterly avoiding the question, to protests from the media.
She was then asked whether she was embarking on a fear campaign because she was panicking about the polls.
It got worse. Before long, a reporter demanded to know whether the claim that WorkChoices would be back on Monday was ''an outright lie''.
It was getting harder to avoid answering such questions, but Ms Gillard did her valiant best, which simply drew the accusation that she was doing what she accused Tony Abbott of doing: not giving straight answers.
Soon her last press conference before polling day was done. Maybe she should have stuck to radio - she gave 20 radio interviews during the day, and, by all reports, she got off pretty scot-free.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/hungry-for-answers-media-pack-feasts-on-panicked-pm-20100820-1390m.html
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