Julia Gillard's misogyny speech 2012 REACTION

[@ponicus1]

Hey Greg! I am so glad you found this. Julia Gillard was treated so appallingly by the right, the media and fuckheads in general. She introduced some very important legislation, aimed at supporting those on the edges of society. I remember this so clearly! I was at work, and we stood on our chairs and screamed our support. Julia had a whole pile of ammunition saved up for this speech, and it felt like she was speaking for all of us! It still makes me cry, because I can feel the pain. He said some terrible things in the media, like saying her recently dead father would be ashamed of her. It was so viscous, and really shone a light on how little some things have changed. Thanks again Greg! 🌞

[@Gemsha20]

They did her so wrong I want to cry. She was amazing xx

[@TheDivineMissMikki]

I've never heard the whole speech & WOW!! I knew she was a good PM, but this sent her even higher, in my opinion (based on growing up listening to politics, cause my dad was very politically minded). Sitting behind Julia is the man that is now our PM.. Albo (Anthony Albanese).. another PM I feel is not being given the true respect he deserves. No leader is perfect, but when pensioners/low income earners get some help they deserve to take pressure off the cost of living... which is high globally... then that to me is the measure of greatness. As for Abbott, who also became a PM (thanx to sexism, media manipulation, & political bs), he maybe should have stuck to eating raw onions. Australia would have been better off. Hi from Queensland (Qld) Australia

[@Gemsha20]

The great thing with Albanese is that he stays under the radar and is working like a liberal, but actually for the good of Australia. Albanese is doing an amazing job x

[@TheDivineMissMikki]

@@Gemsha20 .. he works as someone who wants to get the best possible job done, which can mean keeping everything behind closed doors to protect the job's integrity. To make sure the job does get done. When I became ill, it was under the Howard govt, & though I could barely walk I had to fight tooth & nail for DSP, which I needed to access vital disability services. It was quite a learning experience, & I found out a lot about how poorly people in need were being treated, under the Coalition govt. Even a Sussex St (Sydney) lawyer friend of my dad's couldn't believe what they were doing, & had done to the legislation on DSP. I have no doubt that what they did caused some to take their life. I had no trouble under Rudd, & to this day I've always been better off under a Labor govt. As they don't have majority within their own right, they have to negotiate which can lead to less than ideal results, for which they cop the backlash, yet the true culprits sit back & criticise what they manipulated. They played politics with lives... & the environment. As a free thinker I refrain from falling for media hype & bs. So yes, Albo's doing a great job in ways that the media don't mention, thus the general public are blind to.... yet all they have to do is take off their blinkers. xx

[@shaundgb7367]

Not heard that before but pretty funny the reaction when she called him out for looking at his phone and wondering when he is this woman going to wrap this up.

[@kazz3956]

2:34 the guy behind Julia Gillard is the current Prime Minister…. Julia has been our only ever female Prime Minister.

[@Wandafulofit]

This is Aussie GOLD...!!! Julia ripped Abbott a new one

[@mals4125]

Everything about Julia was magnificent - so sad her policies were never given the full support they deserved.

[@lesliedavis2185]

Julia was amazing , and treated awfully by the right and the media. She did a lot of good work.

[@TheFreezerGeezer]

Greg, if you want to watch a hilarious video of some of the crazy things that come out of Tony Abbott's mouth, this is it. Abbott's the guy who Julia Gillard is directing her much deserved vitriol at in the video you've posted. How this guy ever became prime minister is beyond me. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSskn6MotCLq80

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Wasn’t she magnificent? Australia seems to do coalition governments well and productively, unlike, say Italy. Julia Gillard’s Labour-Green government was the most productive government in Australian history if you count productivity as number of laws passed. The way she came to power was unfortunate, toppling the Labour leader/Prime Minister Paul Rudd prematurely before the next election, only about a year away. Outwardly Paul Rudd got a lot done of great things done for Australia, as listed in his Outgoing Speech here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6nHkqmcqK5ooMk. I highly recommend it if you want to feel good about what a government can achieve sometimes. Internally, Paul Rudd worked everyone to death, and they came to hate him for it. Paul Rudd seems to be one of those few people (like Thatcher) who remain healthy on 3-4 hours sleep a night, and apparently he expected everyone closest to him in administration and government to work 18 hour days like he did and be available for 20. Secondly Rudd was pro vigorously fighting Anthropomorphic Climate Change (ACC). Labour is historically the working class party, and many in high ranks of the Labour Party and government were against fighting ACC if it meant losing already existing jobs in mining and coal power stations out of the workforce. Julia Gillard was the leader of the Protect-Jobs, ACC-Won't-Be-So-Bad faction. They ousted Kevin Rudd on ideological grounds, in coalition with the ‘Kevin-Rudd-Is-Actually-Working-Me-To-Death-And-I’m-Starting-To-Hallucinate-From-Lack-Of-Sleep’ politicians. I think as soon as Julia Gillard was Prime Minister and finally got briefed by the Chief Scientist, it sunk into her just how bad Climate Change would be. Or she caved to the Greens in order to form a Coalition Government. Because she went to the next election (her first as PM) promising she would not bring in a Carbon Tax, and then when she started her new term, she brought in a Carbon tax. It worked beautifully. For the next two years Australia’s CO2 fell 7% a year, while the economy grew 4% a year. But right wing media went into a frenzy, constantly calling her Ju-LIAR, instead of Julia. And it WAS an awful look, breaking one of your biggest election promises, although the ACC science said a Carbon Tax is precisely the best tool to save the Earth and billions of lives. That broken promise and the JuLIAR tag cost Labour the next election, which was won by the conservative Liberal-National coalition Party.

[@LikkieAU]

lol I think mean Kevin Rudd ;)

[@mitchellbeston1033]

The reality of this speech is that the Liberals had expelled one of their MPs (Peter Slipper)from their party, as his adviser was suing him at the time for wrongful dismissal, and that Court case had revealed evidence of multiple text messages from the MP which displayed disgraceful misogyny. I won't even repeat what he said and i'm a bloke. This MP continued serving in the parliament as an Independent. Meanwhile, Gillard (Labor party)had just won a minority Government and had to name a Speaker of the House. Rather than name a Labor MP(which would have cost her a vote in the House), she elected to throw her support behind the disgraced Slipper to be the new speaker of the House. Abbott, as leader of the LNP who had just dismissed Slipper for his misogyny, then exposed Gillard's hypocrisy by pointing out she was willing to support a known misogynist just to hang on to a one seat majority(with the support of Independents). Gillard's pathetic response was to try and label Abbott a misogynist for no other reason than to deflect from her own poor behaviour. Gillard was a terrible PM who was a hypocrite, a supporter of misogynists, and was so bad Labor ultimately replaced her with the bloke they had axed to put her in power(he was a dreadful PM too), which tells you all you need to know about her. She did not even last one term of Government before her own party removed her. Abbott, ended up our next PM.

[@deepcutsreactions7774]

I saw a short bit by John Oliver on Abbott. Seemed a bit of a wanker but I don't know anything about Australian politics. It seems so crazy with multiple parties but that's just my ignorance showing.

[@mitchellbeston1033]

@@deepcutsreactions7774 I don't need to tell you that all politics involves partisanship. Abbott was a very good politician, and an even better bloke. He was a strong advocate for the indigenous community (he would spend a week annually living with an indigenous community, supported women, and was a volunteer fireman, who would fight fires with other volunteers in the Rural Fire Service every Summer (even when PM). Unfortunately for him, once in power he refused to push conservative policies despite being voted in to do so, and at the time the LNP was being harmed by its Left faction. They ultimately stabbed Abbott in the back and removed him for a more left of centre candidate, Malcolm Turnbull, who turned out to be a total disaster. He too was removed for a more conservative leader(who ultimately won the election) and also did not survive a term. From 1997 onwards, Australia has had a plethora of average leaders. I don't include Abbott in that group (or Morrison who had to face the COVID pandemic) but the others (from both parties) were dreadful. Our next PM will be an ex-policeman who is in the Abbott-mould because the current bloke is the worst PM i've ever seen and i'm not just talking Australia. During the election campaign, he did not know either the unemployment or cash rates??? How he won the election is a stain on Australians. Forget the multiple parties...only Labor or the LNP can form Government under our preferential system...no other party fields sufficient candidates in enough seats to form a Government. Sorry for overloading you Greg with this stuff. Politics interests me. I enjoy a good logical argument but i'm also fascinated by the viewpoints of those who are different to me, and always interested to know how their brains work. I'm a big believer that those we disagree with are worth listening to because i'm not that arrogant that i believe i'm always right(turns out it's a rarety lol), and i believe balance is where we should always seek to aim for. Anyway, sorry for the diatribe but i always appreciate your openness and your honesty and the fact you are willing to openly discuss contentious political issues. It is a good attribute that you have. Don't change. Speaking of that, check out Don't Change by INXS. Thanks, as always Greg.

[@deepcutsreactions7774]

@@mitchellbeston1033 I learned to be politically aware at my Mama's knee. It would be disingenuous to pretend it wasn't important or relevant. Politics in the U.S. has gotten so bitter. I've tried to understand how the Trumpers think, how they can possibly hold the viewpoints they do and I just can't wrap my mind around it. One of my good friends holds those views and we just can't hardly talk anymore-unless we avoid politics. He regurgitates what he hears on Fox News or Breitbart and considers all other news sources to be "fake news". I look at a lot of different news sources, both national and international. I've chased down a few of these stories he quotes and found they were flat out lies or worse. It takes a lot of time and effort to research these "stories" and he doesn't believe me anyway. Often these stories begin with something published in RT Magazine. They filter through Breitbart or some such, go to Fox News and then becomes gospel to the right. RT stands for Russia Today. Now you hear in the halls of congress about how the Democrats control the weather and use it to attack Republican districts. I have no problems with debates or differences on policy issues from what used to be called "the loyal opposition" but that isn't what is in play now.

[@mitchellbeston1033]

@@deepcutsreactions7774 I feel you Greg. Like yourself, i watch news from multiple sources and mostly from those services with different political viewpoints to myself. I believe it is important to be informed and no side is always right so it would be ignorant to only take in one viewpoint. My friends know i'm very politically aware and they occasionally ask my opinion but i prefer not to discuss politics with friends because my friendship with them is not dependent on their political views and so i don't want to get in an argument with them over politics. Keep well.

[@Gemsha20]

I am loving these of Australian reviews. They made a mockery of Julia Gillard. She was actually quite amazing, but we weren’t ready for her.

[@deepcutsreactions7774]

I just watched a short John Oliver rip of Abbott. Gives me hope we might survive Trump.

[@Gemsha20]

@ we just gotta ride the wave until it’s over and we’re back on pure shores.