Fuck yeah.

[elisi]

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard "played her best hand with a brilliant attack on the Conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, accusing him of being sexist and a misogynist," the Telegraph reports.

Gillard was defending parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper who resigned "just hours after he survived a motion to sack him for lurid text messages he sent to a former staffer."

The video is extraordinary.

(From here.)

Comments

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Julia, you go, girl!!!!!

[elisi]

I wanted to applaud at the end.

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Hell -- I wrote the woman a congratulatory letter immediately after I viewed it and got back a copy from the government saying it was delivered. Probably only an aide will see it, but oh well!

[elisi]

Cool. And even if it's 'just' an aide, I'm sure it'll be an important part in a greater whole.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

This is so great!

[elisi]

Isn't it just? You dream about moment like this...

[yourlibrarian]

I saw that yesterday and I wish we could see something like this much more often, especially here in the States where that sort of frankness is swapped out for political theater.

[elisi]

*nods* Hopefully with time it'll get better...

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Fuck yes!!

*HUGS*

[elisi]

*cheers*

[makd.livejournal.com]

Wow! She's fabulous, just fabulous!

Thank you very, very, much for sharing this.

[elisi]

TOTALLY my pleasure. It's the kinda stuff women will write in great rants on the internet. To have it spoken by a Prime Minister on TV... magic.

[lokifan]

She is the GREATEST right now.

[elisi]

She really is.

[owlboy]

She's still completely homophobic and awful.

[elisi]

Clearly someone needs to give her a talking to too...