Gillard is no doubt cunning, cold, calculating control freak - no doubt about that. She cut a very lonely figure last night all alone on stage which was in stark contrast to Abbott with his family there standing shoulder to shoulder.
But this result was not just a referendum on her, the despicable way she knifed Rudd notwithstanding, it was also about all the other issues particularly in Queensland and in NSW that cost Labor their huge majority. Add to that to a lesser extent WA, {mining tax} and what happened was just predictable as I indeed predicted on Friday - a hung parliament with the independents being king markers and Abbott being the next PM.
