moonvoice | [News] Politics and shit.

So this time, yesterday morning, Kevin Rudd was quite happily trucking along (reports on this vary) as the Prime Minister of Australia.

And then, within the Labor party, a few people staged kind of a coup, went to Dep Prime Minister Julia Gillard (who is fucking awesome, but we'll save that for a later time) and said, 'hey Julia, we're not so happy with Kevin Rudd. For bunches of reasons. Would you challenge him at the seat of PM?'

Julia was all like 'no way hozay... but... now that I think about it, okay, I'll be a reluctant challenger.'

And then Julia went to Mr. Rudd, yesterday, and was all like 'things aren't going so great, yo.' And Mr. Rudd, never being one to hide from a challenge says 'we'll put it to a vote within the party tomorrow morning. If you win, you will be the Prime Minister. And Australia's first female Prime Minister. Can you funk that up?'

Julia Gillard said, 'I don't know if I really want to Kevo, but we have to do what's best for the party, so sure, I'll metaphorically stab you in the back about six months before election time and we'll see if everyone likes me more, a la Gossip Girl popularity contest!'

Kevo smiles, because secretly he likes trashy American TV, and though he'd never admit it, this was a rare sign of solidarity between himself and Julia 'I like a bit of Strine' Gillard.

And then Wayne Swan drawled out something like, 'man, you guys make decisions faaaaaaast.'

So far the polls show that Julia Gillard is likely to win out and become the first female Prime Minister in Australia. But we'll all know in ~~a couple of hours~~ twenty minutes anyway. It'll all be over then.

Julia Gillard is Australia's first female Prime Minister. Kevo didn't even put himself up for re-vote.

* Note: Dialogue paraphrased for dramatic effect. ;)